Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage

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Introduction to the Series
Foreword Duchamp, Cage, Roth and Katz: Accumulative Effect - Saul Ostrow
Preface - Moira Roth and Jonathan D. Katz
Acknowledgements
Introduction Now and Then - Moira Roth
Part I : Essays by Roth, 1977 and commentary by Katz, 1998 Marcel Duchamp in America: A Self Ready-Made - Moira Roth The Aesthetic of Indifference - Moira Roth Identification - Jonathan D. Katz
Part II : Interviews by Roth about Marcel Duchamp, 1973 John Cage on Marcel Duchamp: An Interview - Moira Roth and William Roth Robert Smithson on Duchamp: An Interview - Moira Roth Interview with Vito Acconci - Moira Roth Interview with George Segal - Mo
Part III : Essays and Performance Texts by Roth, 1991 - 1995, Commentary by Katz, 1998 Excerpts from "The Voice of Shigeko Kubota: "A Fusion of Art and Life, Asia and America..." - Moira Roth Talking Back: An Exchange with Marcel Duchamp - Moira Roth Five
Appendix - Excerpts from "Duchamp Festival, Irvine, California, November 1971" - Moira Roth and Hannah Tandeta Notes Permissions

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First Published in 1999. For the first time gathered together in book form, here are the influential writings of Moira Roth-articles, lectures, and interviews-on the two men who for so long embodied the very spirit of the avantgarde, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. For almost thirty years Duchamp and Cage, who seemed to live on the border of modernism, and later, of postmodernism, alternately have fascinated, irritated, inspired, and daunted the author. Since her initial engagement with Duchamp and Cage in the early seventies, Roth increasingly focused on the work of many American artists-primarily women-only to return to Duchamp and Cage intermittently. At first, they were an inspiration for her writing and teaching. However, as they transformed themselves into classical figures, she came to reconsider and re-evaluate them. This collection offers a wide variety of literary forms-analytic, diaristic, art historical, and autobiographical-all of which Roth has used in her work. Collectively these writings form the subject of compelling and unique critical exchange between Moira Roth, who holds the Trefethen Chair of Art History at Mills College, Oakland, and Jonathan D.Katz, who is Chair of the Department of Gay and Lesbian Studies at City College, San Francisco.

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Moira Roth is a legendary art historian whose writings on the unconventional lives and difficult art of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage are models of critical accessibility. Writing in an engagingly personal diaristic style, these classic essays are collected in Difference/Indiffrence

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