Carolyn Brown on Cage and Cunningham.(Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham)(Book review)

From: Art Monthly | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Ryan, David | Copyright information

Carolyn Brown on Cage and Cunningham

Carolyn Brown, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2007, 656pp, hb, $37.50, 978 0 394 40191 1.

How does one combine the contrasting perspectives of both witness and participant in relation to now historical practices that have changed the nature of how we address, and engage with, the very fabric of artistic production itself? How does one position inform the other? Car...

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