The Roaring Silence – John Cage: A Life [Library of Jill Johnston]

This is an Uncorrected Advance Proof, softcover, 331 pages. Condition is “sorry”, covers stained, edges dog-eared and many pages creased (then uncreased by us) and contains markings and notes by sometime Cage acolyte and colleague the late great Jill Johnston (1929-2010), probably in preparation for her 1996 study of Cage’s friend Jasper Johns (Jasper Johns: Privileged Information.) Johnston was a cultural, literary and dance critic, memoirist, radical lesbian feminist and champion of the avant-garde, and in addition to her many markings within, the book bears her distinctive blue ink-stamp on the first page which reads “Write first. then live.” J.J. See images…