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"Renowned as both choreographer and dancer, Merce Cunningham also revolutionized dance through his partnerships with the many artists who created costumes, lighting, films and videos, and décor and sound for his choreographic works. Cunningham, together with partner John Cage, invited those art...

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Group Author: Meade, Fionn; Rothfuss, Joan; Altshuler, Bruce
Published: Walker Art Center,
Publisher Address: Minneapolis :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: "Renowned as both choreographer and dancer, Merce Cunningham also revolutionized dance through his partnerships with the many artists who created costumes, lighting, films and videos, and décor and sound for his choreographic works. Cunningham, together with partner John Cage, invited those artists to help him rethink what dance could mean, both on the stage and in site-responsive contexts. His notion that movement, sound, and visual art could share a 'common time' remains one of the most radical aesthetic models of the 20th century and yielded extraordinary works by dozens of artists and
Item Description: Exhibitions at: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 8 - July 30, 2017, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 11 - April 30, 2017.
Carrier Form: 451 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-441) and index.
ISBN: 9781935963141
1935963147
Index Number: GV1785
CLC: J797.12-28
Call Number: J797.12-28/M553
Contents: Foreword / Olga Viso -- Acknowledgments / Fionn Meade -- Merce Cunningham and Westbeth / David Vaughan -- Collaborators. John Cage -- Morris Graves -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Jasper Johns -- David Tudor -- Takehisa Kosugi -- Nam June Paik -- Robert Morris -- Bruce Nauman -- Charles Atlas -- Rei Kawakubo -- Black Mountain College -- Essays. Root of an unfocus / Fionn Meade -- A May-December romance?: time and collaboration in The seasons / Juliet Bellow -- Antic meet triptych / Claudia La Rocco -- A medium for engagement: on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Events / Hiroko Ikegami -- Color