Description:
Unique abstract print composed of solid curved lines, and solid and dashed straight lines.
Label Text:
Excerpt from wall label “What Is Love: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” April 19 – June 3, 2007:
John Cage is mostly known for his work as a composer, but he also produced a number of prints. Changes and Disappearances is one print from a larger series of thirty-five etchings, marking his fourth collaboration with Crown Point Press. Each print was derived from eight copper plates that were then cut into sixty-six smaller plates. The curved edges of each plate were determined by chance droppings of string, an approach inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s earlier work Three Standard Stoppages, 1913. Cage used a system of chance and also consulted the I Ching (the Book of Changes) to determine the number of plates to be used in each etching, ranging from thirteen to forty-five, and to decide whether or not to change the plate during the printing process. The number of colors used also varies from 54 to 298. While the plates are reused, a new composition results each time. - Julie Thomson, (M.A. '07)
Tags:
abstract Subjects:
Art, Abstract; Engraving; Etching; drypoints (prints) Link to share this object record:
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