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Title Notebook page, reprinted in George Brecht—Notebooks, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 64–66
Maker George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
Date ca. December 1958
Type sketches and materials
Location Getty Research Institute, item 92-B17341, vol. 2

These pages show George Brecht’s outline for an essay (never completed) titled “The Structure of a New Aesthetic” or “John Cage and the Modern World-View: Space, Time and Causality.” His notes map out the relationships of Cage’s practice to a broader intellectual terrain that included relativity theory, quantum physics, East Asian philosophy, field theory, Gestalt psychology, and psychoanalysis.

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Brecht, George. Notebook page, reprinted in George Brecht—Notebooks, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 64–66, ca. December 1958. Getty Research Institute, item 92-B17341, vol. 2. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/385/.

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