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Give My Regards to Eighth Street
B H Friedman (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Friedman, Bernard Harper. Num Pages: 221 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Exact Change,U.S. United States
Number of pages
221
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
375g
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Bostone, United States
ISBN
9781878972316
SKU
V9781878972316
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About B H Friedman (Ed.)
B H Friedman was a friend of Morton Feldman in the later years of his life. He has written biographies on Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner and Gertrude Vanderbilt.
Reviews for Give My Regards to Eighth Street
"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 ... Read more