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The Music of Painting
Music, Modernism and the Visual Arts from the Romantics to John Cage
ISBN/EAN: 9780714857626
Umbreit-Nr.: 1063209
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 384 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 23.10.2010
- Zusatztext
- The Music of Painting explores the connections between music and the visual arts in the period covering the emergence and flowering of Modernism, c .18491950. Peter Vergo in this volume examines the changes in the analogies between the two disciplines, using in his analysis critical and philosophical sources as well as evidence of artistic and musical practice.
- Kurztext
- Billiant and fascinitating, Peter Vergo reveals how music and painting drew on each other for inspiration and stimulation during the emergence and devolpment of modernism Explores how artists attempted to translate musical rhythms and structures into painting, and how musicians developed visual themes in their compositions
- Autorenportrait
- Peter Vergo is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, a widely respected art historian and author of several books on art and music studies including the classic Art in Vienna 1898.