This book brings together for the first time Moira Roth's influential articles, lectures and interviews on the two men who embodied the very spirit of the avant-garde: Marcel Duchamp and John Cage.Cage, who died in 1992, and Duchamp, who died in 1968, seemed to live on the permissive border of modernism, and later, of postmodernism. The artists have for almost thirty years fascinated, irritated, inspired, and daunted the author of these essays - Moira Roth.At first they were an inspiration for her writing and teaching then, with their gradual transformation into'classical' figures, she felt compelled to reconsider and re-evaluate them. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.