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En la época de posguerra, el compositor estadounidense John Cage empezó a colaborar con el pianista David Tudor y el coreógrafo y bailarín Merce Cunningham para crear proyectos de performance, y en este año, en el Black Mountain College de Carolina del Norte, se representó lo que se denominó “Theater Event”.

En su “declaración autobiográfica” en 1990, Cage describió el acontecimiento: “actividades disparatadas…”

Black Mountain College. Good old times. 

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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible”. - Frank Zappa
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Manhattan bridge building, New York, 1910

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New York City, begginings of the XXth Century

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1937 | Astronomer Edwin Hubble peers though the eyepiece of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at California’s Mt. Wilson Observatory. Originally published in the November 8, 1937, issue of LIFE. (via LIFE Magazine’s Best Pictures: Iconic Images by the 20th Century’s Greatest Photographers, 1936-1972 - LIFE)

1958 | On the screen of a drive-in theater in Utah, Charlton Heston, as Moses in the The Ten Commandments, throws his arms wide before what appears to be a congregation of cars at prayer. Originally published in the December 22, 1958, issue of LIFE. (via LIFE Magazine’s Best Pictures: Iconic Images by the 20th Century’s Greatest Photographers, 1936-1972 - LIFE)

1949 | Pablo Picasso drafts a centaur in mid-air with a “light pen” in southeastern France. Originally published in the January 30, 1950, issue of LIFE. (via LIFE Magazine’s Best Pictures: Iconic Images by the 20th Century’s Greatest Photographers, 1936-1972 - LIFE)