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Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through").
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Very Interesting!!.......2007-02-17
This book is a work of art in itself. John Cage takes so many of his theories and applies them to his writing style, formatting, and type style. I suggest knowing a little about him before reading this book as it is a little easy to get lost in translation (figuratively speaking). Overall, it is definitely worth reading, and it is fairly affordable...a good addition to any collection.
Essential.......2002-05-09
Not just for musicians, but for anybody who is interested in music or philosophy. Cage's ideas presented in the work are fascinating in and of themselves, but even the manner in which he physically notates his thoughts on paper is amazing to see.
There's a common argument that his ideas (and this book) are overrated. I find this difficult to digest, especially when one considers the enormous impact Cage's writings and compositions have had on countless composers (basically anyone composing after 1950 has most likely taken a thing or two from the ideas in this book).
Sometimes he can be a little tough to follow in the book, as properly constructed sentences are not high up on Cage's list of priorities. However, this book has so much to offer that it is worth wading through the occasional slow spot.
So give it a whirl. Even if you don't like Cage's music, reading this book will give you insights into what he did that may change your mind or at least instill a newfound respect. At its best, this is inspiration of the highest sort.
Quintessential Cage.......2001-08-17
I keep reading it year after year and I keep finding sections of it I've never seen before. magic. A the same time, I read the same part overs and over again years later and they just get better.
It's just a remarkable text.
You have to get it.
This book is slightly overrated, actually.......2001-06-13
There is no denying the importance of John Cage as a composer as well as a writer. But even though this book is a necessary provocation for anyone who thinks they know what music is and should be, he is not a philosopher, and his ideas are often contradictory, naive and even romantic.
Romantic? Yes, I would say that for instance his idea of "sounds in themselves" and "nature" are romantic. Can we really eliminate all cultural impact and distortion just by refusing intention? I think not. Sounds are always inflected by history.
Still, I would not want a world without the challenge of his extreme stance.
Nothing Has Been The Same.......2000-05-20
It's always a strange sensation for me to go into a record store, or even see what's available here, and find so many John Cage recordings in print. As the most essential and avant-garde composer of the century, that's gratifying to me [a composer] but also unnerving that anyone so experimental and uncompromising in the arts would enjoy such popularity.
This book goes a long way towards explaining that. And in many ways, this book stands apart from his music, and can be enjoyed without ever hearing or knowing of Cage's music pieces. Because the music was almost by accident - Schoenberg told Cage that he was an inventor, not a composer, and this book demonstrates that, and goes further to show Cage was a philosopher. Music just happened to be the medium where he best expressed his philosophy, but it could have been painting or film, depending on his path. The book defines a way of living and thinking and seeing, and of course hearing, the world. That's what it's about. And it's beautiful and gentle quality capture the essence of Cage, a true quiet revolutionary. His revolution was profound, and best expressed in his piano piece 4'33", where the pianist does not make a sound at the instrument. The revolution of that event was the most profound and destabilizing in the history of music, and yet it was entirely silent. Such is the power of Cage's ideas that he has no need to really 'lecture' about them, he merely presents them and let's their own strength do the rest.
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“What I'm proposing to myself and to other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude—that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.” -John Cage, 1992
John Cage advocated paying attention to the world around us, and “to the life that we are so excellently living.” He is mainly known as a composer who affected the course of music in our time, but he also lectured, wrote commentary and poetry, and made prints, watercolors, and drawings. He died in 1992, but his work continues to affect people conscious of shaping their own lives. Cage worked at Crown Point Press, publisher of fine art prints, every year from 1978 until his death. During that period he produced 27 groups of prints, mostly etchings, totalling 667 individually composed works of art. Kathan Brown worked with Cage on these prints that make up the largest and most sustained aspect of his visual art. In this book, she speaks from her own experience about how he worked. The many illustrations make it easy to see what she is talking about, and she often uses Cage's own words to describe particular works or reflect upon the nature of his art.
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- My Favorite Hero (or at least of the moment)
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Look out world, here he comes - Luke Cage, Hero for Hire - and bullets won't stop him! The early adventures of comics' first and foremost black superstar of the seventies are collected for the first time in one volume as Power Man defends his home turf against the likes of Diamondback, Mace, Black Mariah, Dr. Doom, Senor Suerte, Chemistro, Lionfang, Steeplejack, Cottonmouth, and more! Guest-starring the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and Iron Man! Collects Hero For Hire #1-#16 and Power Man #17-#27
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My Favorite Hero (or at least of the moment).......2006-04-02
I've been reading comics for over 30 years and have always been aware of Luke Cage but had never read much he was in. Sometime last fall I got a hold of several issues of Christopher Priest's excellent Black Panther series. I was hooked and ended up buying all 68 issues online. That led me to an intrest in Power Man. So I started with this collection, and have since aquired almost every issue he's been in in the last 30+ years (except for 5 or 6 cameo appereances). That said this volume collects his earliest work and some of his best. Having been a true DC fan all these years I was surprised at how down to earth these stories are. Marvel has always been the "smaller, more real earth" as shown very well in the recent JLA/Avengers crossover.
But this series brought something that I had not really seen in comics before. A gritty, street level feel that took me into a darker place: Time's Square, New York City, circa the 70's. That said, know that I don't read any indepedent books, and the only Vertigo book I read is Fables. So maybe there is a lot of books out there like this, updated for today's age, but the super-hero spin made it more enjoyable for me.
Luke Cage is a man that is trying to do what is right and make a living at the same time. Who isn't? It's removed from the "Let's save the world because we have powers" vibe that pretty much defines the super-hero genre.
Prison, drug dealers, gangsters, racism, and super villians all collide with the ease of an era gone by. Some of it is remarkably simple and fun, like Luke having to order new silk shirts from the dry cleaner because bullets keep shredding his old ones, even having to wear a yellow t-shirt once because he had ran out and the others were on order.
The supporting cast are real and believable. Dr. Clair Temple's romantic relationship with a falsely accused ex-con is rich with chemistry, his friendship with D.W. the young guy that runs the movie theatre were Cage lives is bright and fun. Dr. Noah Burnstein that man that gave Luke his powers by accident has a great relationship with him, one of debt, fear, and compassion.
The stories stay mostly in NYC, except when he goes the the Fantastic Four so that he can borrow a plane to fly to Latervia for a confrontation with Dr. Doom who owes him 200 bucks!!
He's real, funny, and out to make some money by using his situation to the best he knows how. A young man still growing up and trying to find his way in the world.
The series eventually brings in Iron Fist around issue 48 and it suddenly becomes slightly crowded with all of his supporting cast taking up much of the book. Luke begins to feel like a guest star in his own book. But the original has some of the best stories of the run.
Finally I thought I wouldn't like the black and white pages but actually got used to them and was "shocked" when I started reading the single issues that I bought and suddenly everything was in color.
Overall 5 stars and a good time capsule of a great time in comics.
UNDERAPPRECIATED TITLE.......2006-01-20
Luke Cage Hero for Hire/Powerman is one of the most underappreciated and undervalued comic titles of the 1970's Cage was one of the first black superheroes and the first "street" black hero. Now looking back we may in hindsight question a street black hero being written by a white guy (Archie Goodwin) but those were different times. Lucas Cage was framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison and agreed to be a guinea pig for experiments which gave him super strength and resistance to injury. He used his powers to break out of jail and clear his name and then became a kind of super hero mercenary for hire. The Title would change it's name to Luke Cage, Powerman with issue #17.
One of the best issues included in this book is Powerman #21 in which Cage battles the Original, Silver Age Powerman for the rights to the name and beats him decisively. Very good story. In general, however, Cage battleD very minor, often street type villains such as Black Mariah, Mace, Lion Fang, Cotton Mouth, etc. Although Dr. Doom did put in an appearance in issue #9. The art on the series was usually pretty good, better than most of the lower tier Marvel comics of the 1970's and the covers throughout were very good. I particularly like the cover to #26, a classic Gil Kane work.
Over the years Cage would have various group affiliations with super teams including the Fantastic Four, Avengers, Defenders and Heroes for Hire although he would never remain with one group for any length of time. The stories inside this book are simple, usually one issue stories, but they are really pretty good. I always liked Cage as a mid-level hero.
Mutha Trucka!.......2005-11-01
Big Bad Luke Cage with his jive talking Ebonics and fresh flavour is a blast right out of the seventies....Really.
I was very surprised at how good this essential really was. It handles 70's rascism issues well and is often very well written. After thirty years of reading Marvel comics I found out things about this character I never knew.
- Luke Cage was a career criminal before he became Power Man!
-There was a lot of history and back story long before the Power Man and Iron Fist stories!
- There is quite a lot of seriously ancient marvel history dug up to establish continuity.
- Power Man actually causes the deaths of a large ammount of villains or people he knows in these stories!
This is one of the best of the "early" Marvel 70's comics that I've read.
However be warned, there is a lot of repetition...here is an example:
BAD GUY: "Ha Ha! Take that Power Man!"
POWER MAN: "Jive Turkey, you may have knocked me down but Luke Cage don't ever stay down 'cos he gots STEEL SKIN!"
BAD GUY: "My electro gun will finish you! BANG BANG"
POWER MAN: "Honky, ain't nothing can penetrate my righteous black skin because I's the man with STEEL SKIN!"
BAD GUY: "What's that boy? You got STEEL SKIN or sumtin'?"
And on and on through a multitude of variations along this theme.
For a book that really does take a stand on the whole Black Power issue of the 70s it fails to get past the big issue of sexism which is hugely aparent in all these 70s Marvel comics.
Take it with a grain of salt. I did.
I love it for what it is...well written, unique and thoroughly enthralling.
Sweet Chistmas! .......2005-03-21
That was one of Luke Cage's most famous lines...This is pure magic classic Marvel Comics of the seventies. I was hoping this series would go on without Iron Fist. I did like the Power Man Iron Fist team ups; however Luke Cage was better when he worked alone. This character would make an extrodinary TV series because he wouldn't require a super hero costume or super villians to make it contemporary. I only wish he caught on like Wolverine and Iron Fist did. This is one comic I wish was still being published as a monthly magazine!
I'm talkin' 'bout Cage! LUKE Cage!.......2005-03-06
Let me get one thing out of the way first. I am a twenty year-old white guy living in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. I am among the least likely Americans who could actually get the point (ironic or otherwise) about the Blaxploitation era of the '70's. I mean I tried to watch Superfly once about a year ago (it was on AMC, I think), but I turned it off after about 40 minutes, feeling ashamed with mankind in general.
Thus when I entered my local comic shop two weeks ago and noticed the arrival of the Essential Luke Cage Volume 1, starring the comics world's poster boy for that era, I was a bit skeptical. I didn't think I could really get excited about such stories, but I was committed to the Essentials line and I wanted to pick up on the beginnings of the excellent tale that capped off the Essential Iron Fist (starring Cage's future partner) so I took it home. Did I learn to enjoy it after all? Just shut yo' mouth and I'll tell you.
The saga begins as Carl Lucas, a Harlem-raised street tough framed for drug possession and incarcerated, gets a chance at early parole by becoming a guinea pig in Dr. Burstein's medical experiment. During the process, a racist hick guard sabotages the machine hoping to kill Lucas but instead grants him superhuman strength and durability (whoops!). Lucas escapes, adopts the cover identity of Luke Cage and returns to the Big Apple to use his newfound powers to clear his name and clean up the mean streets (and make some scratch on the side) as a Hero for Hire.
Cage's adventures and adversaries seemed to walk the line between Silver Age Spider-Man and modern Daredevil. He goes up against costumed, gimmicky criminals like his former friend Diamondback (who has a snake outfit and wields trick-laden throwing knives), Lionfang and his mentally controlled predatory cats, Chemistro, the self-proclaimed Master of Alchemy (I sure hope he never says that around FF foe Diablo. That would be awkward), Steeplejack (who has retrofitted his construction-worker tools for warfare), the vigilante team of Discus and Stiletto (they're so fanatic they make the Punisher look congenial) and even the Circus of Crime (Who out there hasn't fought these guys? Even Howard the Duck fought them). In addition to that, he also fights gritty real-world street crime in the form of Senor Suerte (a swarthy illegal casino owner), the ruthless drug kingpin Cottonmouth (also snake-themed), and even a bitter Vietnam vet with a titanium morning star grafted in place of his missing hand (a blow from which I would imagine would be pretty painful to both parties). Also, for pure cheesy comic book glee, Cage uses his brute strength and well honed street fighting prowess to humble Dr. Doom (not many can say that, my friend).
Similar to Iron Fist, the series is an ongoing tale of one man's search for redemption and his true calling. Fortunately, these stories proved to be not nearly as campy, overdone, or tongue-in-cheek as I was expecting. Even though I wasn't particularly fond of "Power Man", the superhero name that Cage eventually chose for himself, I am still thankful that Marvel didn't feel the need to give him a name with the word "Black" in it (DC Comics, I'm looking at you!). Cage's well-known jive-talkin' was also never heavy-handed or played up for laughs and the main character and 70's urban atmosphere never seemed exploitative (even if all of the women Cage met had afros). Case in point: there is one scene toward the end in which Dr. Burstein dismisses a reporter doing an expose on black superheroes by saying he should be concentrating on a hero's sense of honor and not the color of his skin. Sometimes you can find profound messages even in comic books, folks.
In conclusion, what I had thought would be an embarrassing caricature ended up being a very compelling, well-developed post-Lee Marvel character, much like Ghost Rider or Wolverine. I invite all comic book fans to pick up this latest Essential volume. What more can I say about Luke Cage? He's one bad mutha!
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John Cage was one of the most extraordinary and intriguing composers of the twentieth century--or perhaps of any century. His vast corpus of musical compositions, writings, and performances has amazed, amused, bored, enlightened, angered, and fascinated audiences throughout the world. Despite the controversy surrounding his work, there is little disagreement about his role as one of the most important and influential members of the avant-garde.
In Writings about John Cage, the renowned Cage expert Richard Kostelanetz has collected the writings of thirty-seven prominent scholars and critics. Selections include articles by the composers Henry Cowell, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Lou Harrison, Michael Nyman, Virgil Thomson, and Christian Wolff; by literary figures Paul Bowles, John Hollander, and Manfredi Piccolomini; by critics Daniel Charles, Jill Johnston, Edward Rothstein, Calvin Tomkins, and Peter Yates; and by performers Merce Cunningham and Paul Zukofsky. The contributions cover all aspects of Cage's life and career, including his music, his aesthetics, his prose and poetry, his visual art, and his contributions to modern dance.
Richard Kostelanetz is a poet and critic who has written and edited numerous books on aesthetics, the avant-garde, and literature, including The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature, On Innovative Music(ian)s, The Theatre of Mixed Means, and Esthetics Contemporary. He is the author of The Old Poetries and the New, also published by the University of Michigan Press. His books on Cage include John Cage and Conversing with Cage.
". . . the most intelligently chosen book of writings about Cage that I've seen. . . . Kostelanetz is a practiced and gifted anthologist, with the discriminating eye of a litterateur, the sensibility of a poet, and the ear of a musician. . . . . [N]o matter how we read Writings about John Cage, we learn--from intelligent and serious teachers whose writings are worth the effort."--Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter
". . . belongs in the library of anyone who is trying to understand and to deal with John Cage."--Performing Arts Journal
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Amaze Your Friends With Your Knowledge of Modern Art!.......2006-11-24
Tomkins' five essays are a great place to start if you've ever wondered about the purpose behind the "avant-garde" in art and want a general overview of its origins. The chapter on Jean Tinguely is especially fine: it is hard to resist the story of a man who builds robots designed to continuously paint abstracts, start fires or simply destroy themselves. The book is well written, easy to read and contains a subtle sense of humor. Reading this book will make you more intelligent.
excellent art criticism for the neophyte.......1998-04-18
this book is a surprisingly accessible work on the lives of five important artists (duchamp, cage, tinguely, rauschenberg, and cunningham) of the avant-garde, each working from a different discipline. tomkins has gathered exhaustive biographical data on each artist and the reader gets the impression that he is good friends with each of them. his critical stance on the artwork discussed is respectful, and he refrains from using a lot of artworld jargon. a very entertaining read.
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- Mud Pies are to make and to look at, not to eat.
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Mud Pies are to make and to look at, not to eat........2001-10-15
Contrary to what the editorial review says, this is not a "good-natured satire". This book is both a serious and fun guide for making mud cakes and pies. Everybody can do it! The fact that the result might not be edible does not detract from the value of this little book. The illustrations are great, and the language is suited both for children and adults. If you have ever read Walter DeMaria's words on meaningless work, you will surely appreciate this book.
Notes from the Underground.......2000-06-03
So we can't all make music like the Velvet Underground but mud pies are an art form achievable by virtually every humanoid life form. Of course there's a certain ammount of finesse that comes only with time and practice, but Cage's meticulous instructions exist as a solid framework for beginners in this sublime craft. The illustrations are just the sort of inspiration an amateur mud pie or cake maker needs to get those creative juices flowing.
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Old and incomplete............2005-06-15
THE PROFESSIONAL' S BOOK OF LOVEBIRDS by John Coborn covers their natural history, cages and aviaries, nutrition-health and hygiene-breeding Lovebirds and other topics. Coburn provides suggestions for aviaries and cages and recommends aviaries because Lovebirds are ornamental birds, not necessarily good companion animals (although I have a very loveable Peach-faced (Agaponis roseicollis) Lovebird hand raised from a young chick).
Coburn's book includes over 180 color photographs and large type, so it is certainly visually appealing and relatively easy to read, although perhaps a bit dated (the suggested reading section won't include anything issued after 1991). For a surfeit of information about genetics and typology, Dr. D'Angieri's ATLAS on Lovebirds can't be beat, but for more comprehensive albeit easier to access and handle smaller book, you may want to buy Anne Appleyard's THE LOVEBIRD HANDBOOK published in 2001.
lovebird breeder.......2003-03-30
This book does not at all explain what to feed your birds. breeding, nesting, health care it should be called a professionals point of vew good pictures but dont fully expain mutation coloring. Was very dissipointed in this book TITLE is very mis leading if you want a book with pictures of lovebirds with out full discription of them it is ok but other wise it is totaly useless
More mutations.......1999-12-17
It is a book with very potential, in spite of presenting some appearances. It presents images of a lot of quality and quite beautiful. It could go beyond, and to show more new mutations, as the ones that exists here in Portugal.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music has said of John Cage that he "had a greater impact on world music than any other American composer in the twentieth century," and his musical thinking forms a whole with his writing. For the Birds is a book, a dialogue and an event all at once. The initial conversations were recorded in France between 1968 and 1978 and were then reconstructed, reedited and commented upon by Cage. The final text, with footnotes and asides added over the years, is prefaced by a typographical celebration of his ideas compiled by Cage himself.
This ebullient collection of questions and answers covers a wide variety of topics. Cage's great wit and intelligence are allowed to range across such subjects as his own music and texts, mushrooms, chess, James Joyce, Mao, Thoreau, Satie, electronic music, the prepared piano, Zen, the environment, technology, politics and economics.
John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied music with Adolf Weiss, Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, and he has shared ideas with Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Max Ernst, as well as such prophets as Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller. He was music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for decades and held a number of academic posts. Cage was a composer, poet, graphic artist, teacher and critic. He died in New York in 1992.
"He is not a composer, he's an inventor -- of genius."--Arnold Schoenberg
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