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Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Book & CD)
by: Alan Licht

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 700
EAN: 9780847829699
ISBN: 0847829693
Label: Rizzoli
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: November 06, 2007
Publisher: Rizzoli
Release Date: November 06, 2007
Sales Rank: 276442
Studio: Rizzoli

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Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn created entirely new modes of experiencing and engaging with art. In this volume, the complete story of sound art is told by one of the country’s leading critics and scholars. The author traces the history of this form of art–highlighting the convergence of the indie world bands such as Sonic Youth with the art world–looking at the critical cross-pollination that has led to some of the most important and challenging art being produced today, including work by Christian Marclay, LaMonte Young, Janet Cardiff, Rodney Graham, and Laurie Anderson, among many others.

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- great documentation but take the history with a grain or two of salt
as with most rizzoli books, this one seems to have had a budget and a research team for images. it has photo documentation of pieces i've only seen in rare gallery exhibition catalogs or in some case, only heard stories of. licht has included many works sorely missed in other sound art specific books (kahn, labelle, de la motte haber etc) and for that reason the book is well worth the cost when it comes out in soft cover. the writing however, as has been mentioned in other postings, is informal compared to most histories of the sort and in places, value judgements are made which make the text read as too personal to be trusted as a history as such and should have been caught by an editor. the history also has gaps, and suffers from the same problem of most sound art history writing: too much time spent on deciding what is included and excluded from the genre by definitions and not enough space devoted to close ... Read More

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- Very Poor Research
This is one of the worst books on sound art I have ever read. Its like reading an article in college newspaper. The research is incredibly week, it is as if Licht referred only to The Wire for his information. He makes many mistakes concerning John Cage (who made Sound Art in the early 60s and NOT just for "the stage") He takes cheap shots at Stockhausen of whom he seems to know NOTHING about (Cardew was wrong by the way). There is more to sound art than what can be found on Forcedexposure. This book is just awful, and I am afraid it will be used and referred to by teachers and curators in the future, which is a crying shame. And if you think I'm wrong, do some research on Sound Art and you will see that there are many many many books better than this one. After I bought it, I brought it right back and got a full refund I then used that money to order a Stockhausen CD. Please shop around before you buy this book.

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- Just don't call it music...
Years ago, a critic remarked that so-called Performance Art might have been called either Theater or Dance if those media were less uptight. That's how I feel about sound art - if Music were more open as a discipline, we wouldn't need to have a special category of stuff called sound art. We would simply recognize that for most of the 20th century, music and visual art blurred into each other, and the artistic use of so-called non-musical sounds became increasingly important. Today, in the age of the sample, where Foley artists and composers are often one and the same, and most undergrad art students have made at least one sound piece in their lives, it's useful to have Alan Licht's clearly written, well-illustrated, handsomely designed volume on how composers and artists have worked with sound in the 20th century. Licht hits all the significant movements (Futurism, Dada, Fluxus, etc.) that contributed to sound ... Read More

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