Dodd, J orcid.org/0000-0003-1737-7616 (2018) What 4′33″ Is. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96 (4). pp. 629-641. ISSN 0004-8402
Abstract
What is John Cage's 4′33″? This paper disambiguates this question into three sub-questions concerning, respectively, the work's ontological nature, the art form to which it belongs, and the genre it is in. We shall see that the work's performances consist of silence (rather than containing environmental sounds), that it is a work of performance art (rather than music), and that it belongs to the genre of conceptual art. Seeing the work in these ways helps us to understand it better, and promises to assuage somewhat the puzzlement and irritation of those who are at first resistant to its charms.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | John Cage, ontology, art form, genre, music, conceptual art |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2020 14:37 |
Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2020 14:37 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00048402.2017.1408664 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168949 |