{"id":82299,"date":"2026-09-30T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=82299"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:26:06","slug":"roger-selden-for-freeman-etudes-by-john-cage","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/roger-selden-for-freeman-etudes-by-john-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Selden for Freeman Etudes by John Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAGE, John (Music) and Roger Selden (Art).<\/strong> <em>Cards: Freeman Etudes.<\/em> Milan: Edizioni del Naviglio, April 1985.<\/p>\n<p>First edition. The second number of the collection. Edition limited to 990 numbered copies, this being copy #85. Complete with 15 art cards and an explanatory booklet, housed in the publisher&#8217;s original small case (2.75&#8243; x 4.25&#8243;) featuring a red ribbon enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>A fine, flawless copy with no defects. The custom case, ribbon attachment, interior artwork cards, and text booklet are all perfectly preserved, clean, and intact.<\/p>\n<p>This scarce 1985 avant-garde multiple pairs the vibrant abstract design of American artist Roger Selden with themes from John Cage&#8217;s landmark <em>Freeman Etudes<\/em> (1977\u20131990). Celebrated as some of the most complex works ever composed for solo violin, Cage famously derived the etudes using star charts and chance operations from the <em>I Ching<\/em>. Published in Italy by the renowned Edizioni del Naviglio, this pocket-sized art edition serves as an ephemeral visual dialogue with Cage&#8217;s experimental composition methods.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Contributors<\/h3>\n<p><strong>John Cage<\/strong> (1912\u20131992) was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Selden<\/strong> (b. 1945) is an American-born abstract artist who established his career in Milan, Italy. Known for his dense, energetic use of color, collage, and expressive graphic forms, Selden&#8217;s work frequently bridges the worlds of contemporary fine art, design, and experimental collaborations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAGE, John (Music) and Roger Selden (Art). Cards: Freeman Etudes. Milan: Edizioni del Naviglio, April 1985. First edition. The second number of the collection. Edition limited to 990 numbered copies, this being copy #85. Complete with 15 art cards and an explanatory booklet, housed in the publisher&#8217;s original small case (2.75&#8243; x 4.25&#8243;) featuring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":82301,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[253,469,467,59],"product_tag":[265,1759,1760,664,1753,1723],"class_list":["post-82299","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-artist-books-arts-culture","product_cat-artist-multiple","product_cat-fluxus","product_cat-original-art-prints-posters","product_tag-artist-book","product_tag-edizioni-del-naviglio","product_tag-freeman-etudes","product_tag-john-cage","product_tag-roger-selden","product_tag-small-press","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/82299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=82299"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=82299"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=82299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}