TY - BOOK AU - Leach,Brenda Lynne TI - Looking and listening: conversations between modern art and music SN - 9780810883468 AV - ML 3849 .L42 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Art and music KW - Jazz in art KW - Music KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Art, Modern N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -