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Give My Regards To Eighth Street

Collected Writings of Morton Feldman

B H Friedman editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Exact Change,U.S.

Published:9th Mar '01

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Afterword by Frank O'Hara Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th Century. While his music is known for its exteme quiet and delicate beauty, Feldman himself was famously large and loud. His writings are both funny and illuminating, not only about his own music but about the entire New York School of painters, poets and composers that coalesced in the 1950s, including his friends Jackson Pollack, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank O Hara, and John Cage.

"What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art. That's why it all happened." - Morton Feldman; "Like the artists involved in the new American painting, he was pursuing a personal search for expression which could not be limited by any system. His music sets in motion a spiritual life which is rare in any period and especially so in ours." - Frank O'Hara"

ISBN: 9781878972316

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 379g

221 pages