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| SKU | 9780714863863 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Music of Painting |
| Author Description | Peter Vergo |
| Uri | store/art/the-music-of-painting-9780714863863/ |
| Web Author Description | 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. |
| webLongDescription | As a sequel to Phaidon’s That Divine Order, published in 2005, which surveyed the relationship between music and the visual arts from ancient times until the mid-eighteenth century, The Music of Painting continues this fascinating study in the period covering the emergence and development of Modernism, c.1850–1950. Composers and artists repeatedly borrowed from one another, yet their motives have seldom been explored. Professor Peter Vergo in this volume provides a broad analysis of changes in the character of the analogies drawn at different times, using in his analysis critical and philosophical sources as well as evidence about artistic and musical practice. Music has inspired some of the most progressive art of our time from the abstract painting of Wassily Kandinsky to the mid-century experimental films of Oskar Pischinger. Personalities as different in their background and outlook as František Kupka and Paul Klee both created ‘fugue’ paintings. Similarly, a wide-spread admiration for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the acknowledged master of fugue, affected not only painters in Paris on the eve of the First World War such as Georges Braque but also artists at the Bauhaus during the 1920s including the American Lyonel Feininger and the Swiss Johannes Itten. Other Bauhaus artists, Klee and Kandinsky among them, devoted significant time and energy to examining whether it was possible to translate actual fragments of music or specific musical motifs into the language of visual art. |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Size | Size: 245 x 172 mm (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in) |
| Pages | Pages: 384 |
| Illustrations | 16 |
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Immensely informative... with its constantly engaging prose and many illustrations this book is extremely enjoyable as well as thought-provoking.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eInternational Record Review\u003c/em\u003e\n\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Lucid and engrossing.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Cross disciplinary to-ing and fro-ing is elegantly orchestrated in this book by Peter Vergo, a must have for anyone interested in why Modernism looks (and sounds) as it does.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eArt Quarterly \u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Scholarly and sizable \u0026#8230; its articulate prose and beautiful presentation [...] make it a worthy contender for your Christmas wish lists.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eMuso\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Over a long period, Peter Vergo has submitted music and the visual arts to sustained comparative analysis. 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