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Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Olga Viso
• Acknowledgments / Fionn Meade
• Merce Cunningham and Westbeth / David Vaughan
• Collaborators. John Cage
• Morris Graves
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Jasper Johns
• David Tudor
• Takehisa Kosugi
• Nam June Paik
• Robert Morris
• Bruce Nauman
• Charles Atlas
• Rei Kawakubo
• Black Mountain College
• Essays. Root of an unfocus / Fionn Meade
• A May-December romance?: time and collaboration in The seasons / Juliet Bellow
• Antic meet triptych / Claudia La Rocco
• A medium for engagement: on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Events / Hiroko Ikegami
• Color should travel: Frank Stella's Scramble / Mary L. Coyne

• Not so much a program of music as the experience of music / Benjamin Piekut
• Blossoming of the bride: on Walkaround time / Carlos Basualdo
• Between us: friendship in Channels/Inserts / Kelly Kivland
• Four events that have led to large discoveries (about Merce Cunningham) / Douglas Crimp
• Ocean / Philip Bither
• Dancing for the digital age: Cunningham's Biped / Roger Copeland
• Variations V (1965) / Merce Cunningham
• Interviews. Legacy and forward motion: interviews with Common time commissioned artists / Philip Bither
• An interview with Beth Gill / Danielle Goldman
• An interview with Maria Hassabi / Aram Moshayedi
• An interview with Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener / Victoria Brooks
• Chronology. A labyrinth with no exits: a chronology of Merce Cunningham and his collaborators / Mary L. Coyne
• Artist texts. Notation (1968) / Merce Cunningham
• Space, time and dance (1952) / Merce Cunningham
• [The new school] (Early 1960s) / John Cage
• The Cage class (1991) / Bruce Altshuler
• 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance (1957) / John Cage
• A view of 9 evenings: theatre & engineering (1967) / Simone Forti
• Judson days (1962) / Robert Ellis Dunn
• Cunningham and his dancers
• conversation with Carolyn Brown, Douglas Dunn, Viola Farber, Steve Paxton, Marianne Preger-Simon, Valda Setterfield, and Gus Solomons Jr (1987) / David Vaughan (moderator)
• Four events that have led to large discoveries (1994) / Merce Cunningham
• Portfolios. Costumes from the Walker Art Center MCDC Collection
• Choreography in focus / Fionn Meade
• Reference. Appendix I. Merce Cunningham choreography
• Appendix II. Dances for camera
• Appendix III. Dancers
• Appendix IV. Composers
• Appendix V. Visual artists and designers.

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Contributors:

Meade, Fionn , editor

Rothfuss, Joan , editor

Cunningham, Merce

Walker Art Center , organizer, host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/orm, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

Works [of Cunningham, M.] (Selections)

Subjects:

Cunningham, Merce — Exhibitions

Merce Cunningham Dance Company — Exhibitions

Art and dance — United States — Exhibitions

Artistic collaboration — United States — Exhibitions

Cunningham, Merce

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Art and dance

Artistic collaboration

United States

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

Exhibitions at: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 8 - July 30, 2017, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 11 - April 30, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-441) and index.

Physical Description:

451 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Call Numbers:

GV1785.C85 M485 2017

ISBNs:

9781935963141 (hardback, alkaline paper)
1935963147 (hardback, alkaline paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016053353

OCLC Numbers:

959038640