Other Animals: Drawings and Journals by Merce Cunningham
8vo. pp. 96.. profusely illustrated. hardcover. dw. [New York]: Aperture, [2002].
First Edition.
New.
ISBN-10: 0893819468 / ISBN-13: 9780893819460
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Evocative and playful sketches from one of America's greatest living artists.
Merce Cunningham is an observer with a grand sense of humor who marvels at and revels in nature with the same childlike vision, openness, and attention to detail that infuse his dances. Using ink and colored pencils on paper, Cunningham creates a fantastical wonderland for the unexpected, exotic, and peculiar to roam free, coexist, and inspire the imagination. The drawings, collected and published here for the first time, along with selected entries from Cunningham's personal journals and juxtaposed with photographs of some of his dances and choreographic notes, reveal much about both his creative spirit and approach to his work.