condition (book): EX+

Stapled 10"x6", 16-page artist book with multi-colored text.

Parts LXI to LXXXIX of Cage's four-part text on the Vietnam War and 1960s political issues. This book is printed in three colors, but in a variety of combinations that produce a myriad of different colors on the page. A repository of observations, anecdotes, obsessions, jokes and koan like stories, the diary registers Cage's assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny predictions about the world we live in. An exploration of chance, play, variations on themes that reflect minimalist modularities or zen realities. The Diary texts are characteristic of Cage's literary practice: prose and poetry assembled through chance operations, the pages formatted as columns of text in varying typefaces, the content ranging from politics to mushrooms to economics to Zen anecdotes, resisting continuity or argument in favour of something more like an accumulation of positions. Part Three is among the rarer items from the Something Else list.