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November 28, 1964

The New Yorker cover for November 28, 1964

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FIGURE IN AN IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE.

Byadam Gopnik

PROFILE of John Cage, avant-garde American composer, now 52. He is proposing the complete overthrow of the most basic assumptions of Western art since the …