Philosophical Reflections on the Art of John Cage's 4 Minutes 33 Seconds

Abstract

John Cage (1912-1992) was the most direct challenger of traditional music, a composer and musical inventor with considerable achievements in both destruction and reconstruction. He undoubtedly became the representative of the 20th century avant-garde music, and his works brought the people of the world a kind of shock and a kind of thinking. In opposition to traditional European musical art, 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds blurs the boundaries between sound and soundlessness, music creation and music appreciation, creating contemporary musical art that is purely centred on reflection. Because of the peak nature of the presentation of contemporary art, the philosophy of art also extends to the thinking of the entire philosophical community, so is the philosophical aspect of art at this time still called artistic thinking? In fact, it extends to people's thinking about the meaning of the existence of art and what is art. In Zhu Di's book Contemporary Western Philosophy of Art, he proposes that the concept of art is a "floating reference", which has a temporal transfer and presents different entities in different times.