In the Track Cabin: Expand Plastic Architectures in John Cage’s Europeras Series.
Abstract
The transgressive work by the artist and composer John Cage is well known. Ground-breaking of conventional rules in music, he overstepped disciplinary boundaries to complete what Marcel Duchamp started in the field of arts. Thus, his constant rethinking of all traditional western European culture brought him, no less, to want to dynamite its musical basis making use of one of its most distinctive expressions, the opera. However, what initially began as a frontal attack became, little by little, an understanding that led into acceptance and respect. This evolutionary process is studied –from the perspective of plastic arts– in this research. Obviously, there are many more angles from which to approach us to this Cage’s work of five “operas”. Therefore, the aim here is to show one of them to assume a beginning for further researches in order to extend the knowledge of this composer’s theory since we should remember that the important thing of his work is precisely the fact it makes us think.Downloads
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