Besides being a composer, philosopher, poet, artist and printmaker, John Cage was a leading authority on what?
John Cage in the late fifties. Cage met Kaprow while on a mushroom hunt with George Segal and invited him to join his class. In following these developments Cage was strongly influenced by Antonin Artaud's seminal treatise "The Theatre and Its Double", and the happenings of this period can be viewed as a forerunner to the ensuing Fluxus movement. In October 1960, Mary Bauermeister's Cologne studio hosted a joint concert by Cage and the video artist Nam June Paik, who in the course of his "Etude for Piano" cut off Cage's tie and then washed his co-performer's hair with shampoo. In 1967,
Giuseppe Chiari (artist-composer-philosopher) Giuseppe Chiari (artist-composer-philosopher) Giuseppe Chiari (1926–2007) was an Avant-Garde Florentine conceptual artist and experimental musician active in Neo-Dada circles, specifically the Fluxus art movement. Chiari was a supporter of intermedia work conducted between music, speech, gesture and image. Giuseppe Chiari was born in Florence, Italy on September 26, 1926. In Florence he devoted himself to studying piano and music composition in parallel with studies in mathematics and engineering (1946–51). He was especially drawn to the work of John Cage, and himself began to take an interest in promoting experimental research in visual music in 1961. In 1962, at the Fluxus