Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: John Cage Plexigrams

John Cage, the most prominent American experimental composer of the 20th century, also exercised his creativity in making prints and in assembling words as graphic/conceptual puzzles. In 1969, Cage produced his first visual artwork, a series of eight “Plexigrams” with the collective title Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel. Each Plexigram is composed of eight printed Plexiglas sheets that stand in parallel groove-slots in a wooden base; the entirety is viewed through the spaced “sandwich.”