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Audio Arts: Published supplement ‘John Cage, Art Is Either a Complaint or do Something Else’

1990

 
 
  • Audio Arts: John Cage. Art is either a Complaint or do Something Else, Side A 00:24:58
    00:24:58
  • Audio Arts: John Cage. Art is either a Complaint or do Something Else, Side B 00:23:02
    00:23:02

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Title
Audio Arts: Published supplement ‘John Cage, Art Is Either a Complaint or do Something Else’
Date
1990
Description
This Audio Arts supplement, originally published as an audio cassette magazine in 1992, features a reading by John Cage, recorded during the exhibition, Dancers on a Plane held at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in 1989 and published in 1992.

These texts come from statements by Jasper Johns taken from Mark Rosenthale's, Jasper Johns works since 1984, Philadelphia Museum of Art 1988. They are not about Johns's statements, and because of the way they are written, other statements are produced. (John Cage 1989).
Format
Audio-visual - sound recording
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Purchased from William Furlong, July 2004.
Reference
TGA 200414/7/3/2/49

Archive context

  • Material relating to William Furlong’s Audio Arts Magazine TGA 200414 (122)
    • Audio recordings TGA 200414/7 (122)
      • Published recordings TGA 200414/7/3 (122)
        • Supplements TGA 200414/7/3/2 (50)
          • Audio Arts: Published supplement ‘John Cage, Art Is Either a Complaint or do Something Else’ TGA 200414/7/3/2/49
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