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ID: 500092036
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500092036
 
Record Type: Person
Cage, John (American composer and writer, 1912-1992)

Note: Originally trained as an abstract painter, Cage abandoned the medium in favor of composition, which he studied with Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg. In the 1940s, becoming interested in expanding the range of percussive instruments, he developed the "prepared piano", composing works for a piano with various objects placed between the strings. After studying Zen Buddhism, Cage began to work toward a new theory of composition, focusing on removing intention and personal taste, with attention paid to the process and the element of chance. Regarding silence on equal terms as structured sound and noise, in 1952 Cage produced 4'33", a composition in which no sound is made. Cage was a strong influence and a collaborator with many visual artists, and including his life partner the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Names:
Cage, John (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
John Cage (V,display)
Cage, John Milton, Jr. (V)
Keĭdzh, Dzhon (U)
J. C. (U)
C., J. (U)
Kēji, Jon (U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
LGBTQ

Roles:
artist (preferred)
composer (music)
theorist
philosopher
writer
printmaker
lecturer
painter
sculptor
graphic artist
author

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Duchamp, Marcel  
................................  (French painter, sculptor, and writer, 1887-1968) [500115393]
collaborated with ....  La Barbara, Joan  
................................  (American composer and vocalist, born 1947) [500351821]
collaborated with ....  Noguchi, Isamu  
................................  (American sculptor and designer, 1904-1988) [500008602]
collaborated with ....  Patterson, Benjamin  
................................  (American musician and Fluxus artist, 1934-2016) [500202321]
collaborated with ....  Sun Ra  
................................  (American musician, poet, and performer, 1941-1993, born Saturn) [500779226]
collaborated with ....  Taylor, Paul  
................................  (American dancer and choreographer, 1930-2018) [500476068]
collaborated with ....  Tudor, David  
................................  (American musician, composer, and sound artist, 1926-1996) [500124542]
collaborated with ....  Zaj  
................................  (Spanish artists' collective, founded 1964) [500350993]
colleague of ....  Feldman, Morton  
......................  (American composer, 1926-1987) [500351435]
colleague of ....  Rosenthal, Rachel  
......................  (American performance artist and sculptor, 1926-2015) [500083622]
employee of ....  Goldfinger, Ernö  
....................  (British architect, 1902-1987) [500026551]
friend of ....  Bradshaw, Dove  
................  (American painter, sculptor, and stage designer, born 1949) [500334791]
friend of ....  Scheyer, Galka  
................  (American art dealer and collector, 1889-1945, born in Germany) [500349756]
influenced ....  Paik, Nam June  
....................  (South Korean sculptor, video artist, and performance artist, 1932-2006, active in the United States) [500118744]
influenced ....  Rauschenberg, Robert  
....................  (American painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1925-2008) [500002941]
influenced by ....  Satie, Erik  
........................  (French composer, 1866-1925) [500338521]
partner of ....  Cunningham, Merce  
..................  (American dancer and choreographer, 1919-2009) [500316396]
student of ....  Schoenberg, Arnold  
..................  (Austrian composer and painter, 1874-1951) [500030015]
teacher at (person to institution) ....  Black Mountain College  
............................................................  (American liberal arts college, active 1933-1957) [500125890]
teacher of ....  Hansen, Al  
..................  (American collagist and performance artist, 1927-1995) [500352650]
teacher of ....  Kaprow, Allan  1957-1959
..................  (American performance artist, 1927-2006) [500031037]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Cage, John (I)

Biographies:
(American composer and writer, 1912-1992) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American composer, printmaker, b.1912) ..... [BHA]
(sculptor, born 1912) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American composer, 1912-1992) ..... [AVERY]
(American composer, 1912-1992) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1912-1992) ..... [MoMA]
(American composer, 1912-1992) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Cage, John ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
......................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 912
......................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164
......................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
......................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 24 November 2003
......................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
......................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50032828
......................  Phillips and Kaiser, Harald Szeemann (2018)
......................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 14700
......................  Witt Library, Authority files
Cage, John Milton, Jr. ........ [VP]
............................................  Kozinn, John Cage, New York Times (1992)
C., J. ........ [GRL]
..............  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50032828
J. C. ........ [GRL]
............  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50032828
John Cage ........ [CL-Courtauld, GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Keĭdzh, Dzhon ........ [GRL]
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50032828
Kēji, Jon ........ [GRL]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50032828

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/912
....................  Babington Smith Dictionary of Contemporary artists (1981)
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50032828
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 912
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 24 November 2003
....................  Guide to Exhibited Artists: North American Painters (1985)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  International Directory of Exhibiting Artists (1982-) 1982-1983
....................  Kozinn, John Cage, New York Times (1992)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50032828
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 14700
....................  SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 42354871
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 71577292
....................  Who Was Who in America (1899-1890-) 1988-89
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-) 1986
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q1711445; Q180727
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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