{"product_id":"composition-in-retrospect-9781878972118","title":"Composition in Retrospect","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Cage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Exact Change\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Exact Change\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Cage's poetical statement on indeterminacy, Duchamp, art, life and more \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in his characteristic \"mesostics\" (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), \u003ci\u003eComposition in Retrospect\u003c\/i\u003e is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of his work: indeterminacy, imitation, variable structure and contingency. Finished only shortly before his death in 1992, \u003ci\u003eComposition in Retrospect\u003c\/i\u003e completes the documentation of Cage's thought that began with his classic book \u003ci\u003eSilence\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), but it is an introduction and invitation to his work as much as a summary or conclusion. Also included in this volume (at Cage's request) is \"Themes and Variations,\" a piece written in 1982 about friends and heroes such as Jasper Johns, Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp and Erik Satie. Together these pieces form a book that is both a testament to the artists Cage admired and a clear statement of his own ars poetica.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Exact Change","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46290244173975,"sku":"9781878972118","price":1553.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781878972118.webp?v=1767701236","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/composition-in-retrospect-9781878972118","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}