Essays on John Cage

Fluxus art movement or simply Fluxus, started as a loosely defined group of artists, musicians and poets who had nothing more in common than a vision of life integrated in art, and art as the living of a life. More than 50 artists were associated with the art movement, creating music and anti-music, art that was not adherent to ‘museum defined standards’ and poems that were not traditional. This movement caused social and economic change in the society in the 1960’s (when it was first started) and had effects whose fruits we reap even today. This movement can ...

When speaking of minimalism in music, one cannot speak of it completely without mentioning Terry Riley and La Monte Young, who at a large extent are credited for being the pioneers of the minimalism movement (Potter, 2). The interaction between the two classmates at the University of California-Berkeley would later go on to shape a new genre of music. Riley and Young were both interested in classical music and drew inspiration from John Cage, a renowned composer and performer based in Germany (Potter, 12). In 1959, Young visited Germany and got to experience music performance from his mentor John ...

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Art in the 20th century can be well remembered with the great activities that were carried out by some of the great personalities as may be found in history. In San Francisco for example, there arose one artist by the name Anna Halprin who made a great debut through her artistic works and performance especially in dance. Dance is an art that involves the movements of the body parts to some form of rhythm or music and is used as a form of expression or public interaction and may be presented as a performance before a particular group of persons either for entertainment ...