Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly
This book was published on the occasion of Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, an exhibition organized in 2025 by Museum Brandhorst, Munich, in cooperation with Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. The presentation focused on this circle of artists who had a decisive influence on postwar art in the fields of music, dance, painting, sculpture, and drawing. The friendships connecting the five artists were marked by collaborative work, intense debate, intimate relationships, and painful separations. In their common search for new forms of expression, they addressed similar issues: technology and progress, silence and change, tradition and radical innovation.
Featuring 415 color illustrations, this substantial catalogue reproduces more than 180 artworks alongside archival material, ephemera, costumes, and scores. Texts by Ilka Becker, Daniel M. Callahan, Yilmaz Dziewior, Trajal Harrell, Achim Hochdörfer, Helen Hsu, Anna Huber, Alex Kitnick, Laura Kuhn, Nick Mauss, Carrie Jaurès Noland, Kerstin Renerig, Kenneth E. Silver, Deborah Solomon, and Leonore Spemann question and expand the hitherto mostly monographic view of the five artists, revisiting the diverse correspondence of ideas between them.
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Publication date: 2025
Contributors: Ilka Becker, Daniel M. Callahan, Yilmaz Dziewior, Trajal Harrell, Achim Hochdörfer, Helen Hsu, Anna Huber, Alex Kitnick, Laura Kuhn, Nick Mauss, Carrie Jaurès Noland, Kerstin Renerig, Kenneth E. Silver, Deborah Solomon, Leonore Spemann
Designer: Teo Schifferli with Vivien Pöhls
Printer: Druckhaus Sportflieger, Berlin
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (23.6 × 29.5 cm)
Pages: 332
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-8296-1043-8
