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Variations with interludes and variations

Title: Variations with interludes and variations / John Cage ; with monotypes by the author.
Author: Cage, John.
Publication: [New York] : Osiris, c1992.

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Found In

Cage, John. First meeting of the Satie Society. (OCoLC)761742509

Description

[312] p. : 54 ill.; 27 x 34 cm.

Alternative Title

John Cage : variations with interludes and variations

Subjects

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States – 20th century.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Didot (English Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bauer Bodoni.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Walbaum (English Monotype)

Note

"Eighteen bound and six unbound variations of this work were made"--Colophon. Fewer than 15 copies were actually produced, according to information from the publisher in Spencer Coll. files.
Title page information on 2 successive leaves.
One of 8 works included in The first meeting of the Satie Society, a collaborative work by Cage and 7 other artists.
"The text was set by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrarie at Golgonooza Letter Foundry and printed at Horton Tank Graphics and Wild Carrot Letterpress on Sekishu Torinoko Gampi. The design is by John Cage and Benjamin Shiff. The monotypes were printed by Peter Pettingill at Wingate Studio. The type was composed by Arthur Larson. This work was handbound by John Isakovics"--Colophon.
"[With] fifty-four monotypes by John Cage ... The Satie memorabilia burned in the making of the monotypes was printed at Trestle Editions Ltd. ... The text was set in English Monotype Didot ... The text was composed by Arthur Larson at Horton Tank Graphics. The display type used is foundry Bauer Bodoni cast at Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, with English Monotype Walbaum cast at Golgonooza Letterfoundry ... The front and back covers were made with Cage's monotypes, and layers of laminated Japanese tissues. The books and exhibition sheets were bound and/or assembled at Jovonis Bindery"--The first meeting of the Satie Society, c1994, p. [3] at end.
Contains 160 leaves in 20 gatherings of 6, 8, 10 or 12. Blank leaf at beginning and 3 blank leaves in final gathering are not included in page count, above.
"A renga. Five mesostics of equal length were written by John Cage using as source material his own writings on ... seventeen subjects in relation to Erik Satie and his work ... The theme is of course Erik Satie. The variations and interludes were produced by letting I Ching chance operations determine which of the five source poems provides the first line, which the second, etc. The mesostic string for the variations was written on the name, Erik Satie, or on its initials. The strings for the interludes were written on the following Satie titles: Mercure, Socrate, Sports et divertissements, Parade, Le fils des étoiles, Pièces froides, Tendrement, Gnossiennes, Nocturnes, Trois morceaux en form de poire"--P. [300-305].
"[Cage] transferred reproductions of Satie memorabilia--musical scores, writings, drawings, childhood photographs, et cetera--onto newsprint which was set on fire, and while still burning was extinguished and reprinted on dampened tissue under the roller of an etching press"--The first meeting of the Satie Society, c1994, leaves 17-18.

Indexed In (note)

Castleman, R. Century of artists books

Binding (note)

Bound copies: Publisher's laminated tissue paper boards incorporating 2 additional monotypes by Cage.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1992 10-220

OCLC

761749174

Author

Cage, John.

Title

Variations with interludes and variations / John Cage ; with monotypes by the author.

Imprint

[New York] : Osiris, c1992.

Edition

1st ed.

Indexed In:

Castleman, R. Century of artists books, p. 227

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is numbered "1/24"; issued bound.

Binding

Bound copies: Publisher's laminated tissue paper boards incorporating 2 additional monotypes by Cage.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

United States Massachusetts Hadley.

Added Author

Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.

Carr, Dan. Compositor

Ferrari, Julia. Compositor

Shiff, Ben. Book designer

Pettingill, Peter. Printer of plates

Larson, Arthur, printer. Printer

Von Isakovics, John. Binder

Osiris (Firm : New York, N.Y.) Publisher

Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Compositor

Horton Tank Graphics. Printer

Wild Carrot Letterpress. Printer

Wingate Studio. Printer of plates

Jovonis Bindery. Binder

Fundición Tipográfica Neufville.

Found In:

Cage, John. First meeting of the Satie Society. (OCoLC)761742509

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1992 10-220

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