Looking and listening : conversations between modern art and music / Brenda Lynne Leach.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: xx, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780810883468
  • 0810883465
  • 9781442241312
  • 1442241314
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML 3849 .L42 2015
Contents:
Part I. Prelude : Artists respond to music -- Stuart Davis and the art of jazz -- Arthur Dove and George Gershwin: A brush with Rhapsody in Blue -- Romare Bearden and visual jazz -- European artists and American jazz -- Kandinsky and Schoenberg : On the verge -- Part II. Interlude 1 : Composers respond to artists -- Dave Brubeck and his reflections on Mir�ao : Music and art across time -- Paul Klee : The music in the art -- Mark Rothko and Morton Feldman : Somewhere between presence and absence, sound and silence -- Earle Brown and Alexander Calder : Who's in control? -- John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg : Life of art -- art of life -- Part III. Interlude 2 : Shared inspiration and influence across domains -- Claude Debussy and the Fin-de-Si�aecle -- Cubism in art and music -- Georgia O'Keeffe and American modernist composers : The spirit of a new century -- Diego Rivera and Carlos Ch�aavez : Voices of Mexico in art and music -- Minimalism in art and music -- Postlude.
Summary: "This book invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In Looking and Listening, conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach explores unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from the twentieth century, identifying the shared sources of inspiration" -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Prelude : Artists respond to music -- Stuart Davis and the art of jazz -- Arthur Dove and George Gershwin: A brush with Rhapsody in Blue -- Romare Bearden and visual jazz -- European artists and American jazz -- Kandinsky and Schoenberg : On the verge -- Part II. Interlude 1 : Composers respond to artists -- Dave Brubeck and his reflections on Mir�ao : Music and art across time -- Paul Klee : The music in the art -- Mark Rothko and Morton Feldman : Somewhere between presence and absence, sound and silence -- Earle Brown and Alexander Calder : Who's in control? -- John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg : Life of art -- art of life -- Part III. Interlude 2 : Shared inspiration and influence across domains -- Claude Debussy and the Fin-de-Si�aecle -- Cubism in art and music -- Georgia O'Keeffe and American modernist composers : The spirit of a new century -- Diego Rivera and Carlos Ch�aavez : Voices of Mexico in art and music -- Minimalism in art and music -- Postlude.

"This book invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In Looking and Listening, conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach explores unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from the twentieth century, identifying the shared sources of inspiration" -- Provided by publisher.

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