A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. Silverman begins with Cage s childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage...
A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist John Cage became a central f...
