La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, Selected Writings. Signed and numbered first edition, rare

Munich, Heiner Friedrich, 1969. Softcover, 21 x 14.5 cm, 104 pp. A collection of writings by and about composer La Monte Young. Includes several pages of Zazeela's hallucinatory calligraphy, a poem by Young for Diane Wasoski, as well as essays, lectures and interviews by the artists on their work. One of the 98 books that were signed, dated (Munich 7 Aug. 1969) and numbered 23/98 by Young and Zazeela. Printed in West Germany by a patron of Young and Zazeela. Rare document in mint condition.

Young was a forerunner of the Fluxus movement and is widely regarded as the first Minimalist composer; Zazeela began as psychedelic painter and became one of the first artists working with light. Their collaborative performance group, The Theatre of Eternal Music, and their Dream House sound and light-environments are discussed at length in this volume.