For over forty years Iannis Xenakis has been one of the major figures in contemporary music. In all that time, there has not been a study of his music published in English...
This book leads the curious reader towards new musical experiences hitherto unknown to them. Whether a fellow traveling musical obsessive or one to whom much of this is uncharted waters, the book maps out paths to exciting sonic adventures. The direction i..
In this pathbreaking book, Bálint András Varga puts these three questions to such renowned composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Alberto Ginastera, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, György Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi No..
Reviewing Louise Bourgeois'''' monumental 2007-2008 traveling retrospective during its stop at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, The New York Times'''' Holland Cotter wrote, for Bourgeois, ...
There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers (Antonioni, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Chinatown) an..
Ashbery’s own prose writings and engagement with prose writers—through translations, essays, and criticism—have had a profound impact on the cultural landscape of the past half century. This book presents his versions of, among others, th..
In the mid-1960s Empress Farah Pahlavi’s initial proposition for an event of such magnitude was put forward and, in the summer of 1967, formally realised under the guidance of the National Iranian Radio & Television and its Director General, Reza Gho..
