{"title":"Letters \u0026 Correspondence","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-selected-letters-of-john-cage","title":"The Selected Letters of John Cage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e17 x 4.5 x 24.3 cm | 656 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWesleyan University Press | 2016 | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9780819575913\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham, and shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-garde. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCage's joie de vivre resounds in these letters - fully annotated throughout - in every phase of his career, and includes correspondence with Peter Yates, David Tudor, and Pierre Boulez, among others. Above all, they reveal his passionate interest in people, ideas, and the arts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe voice is one we recognise from his writings: singular, profound, irreverent, and funny. Not only will readers take pleasure in Cage's correspondence with and commentary about the people and events of a momentous and transformative time in the arts, they will also share in his meditations on the very nature of art. A deep pleasure to read, this volume presents an extraordinary portrait of a complex, brilliant man who challenged and changed the artistic currents of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45223916732674,"sku":"BK-WUP-SRJC-001-DE","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_4071_2a758196-5507-4217-bb72-4609f03ffdeb.jpg?v=1718623234"},{"product_id":"more-letters-of-note-correspondence-deserving-of-a-wider-audience","title":"More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eShaun Usher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSoftcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e17.8 x 3 x 23 cm | 384 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCanongate | 2017 | \u003c\/span\u003e9781786891693\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMore Letters of Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIncluding letters from:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Austen, Richard Burton, Steve Albini, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. 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