John Cage, Robert Barry, Joan Jonas, Tom Marioni

condition (book): NM

Softbound 9"x8", 68-page book with b/w and color illustrations.

Published in conjunction with traveling show first exhibited at Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, University of Santa Cruz, CA, January 6 - February 6, 1980.  Crown Point Press - the Oakland printmaking studio where John Cage began his sustained engagement with visual art in January 1978, returning almost every year until his death - published this documentation of four artists working at the intersection of sound, language, image, and performance: Cage alongside Robert Barry, the conceptual artist associated with Arte Povera and invisible materials; Joan Jonas, the pioneering performance and video artist whose work explored mirrors, gesture, and the female body; and Tom Marioni, the San Francisco artist who had founded the Museum of Conceptual Art and whose practice centred on social sculpture and the sounds of ordinary activity. A document of the Crown Point milieu at its most intellectually rich - the studio as gathering place for an interdisciplinary conversation about what art does when it reaches the edges of its medium.