Looking and Listening: Conversations between Modern Art and Music

Brenda Lynne Leach

doi:10.5771/9780810883475

Summary

Looking and Listening: Conversations between Modern Art and Music invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor into an open dialog. Although the worlds of music and visual art often seem to take separate paths, they are usually parallel. Conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach takes unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from the twentieth century to identify the shared sources of inspiration, as well as similarities in theme, style, and technique, to explore the historical and cultural influences on the great artists and composers in the twentieth century. Looking and Listening asks and answers: What does jazz have in common with paintings by Stuart Davis and Piet Mondrian? How did Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue affect the work of artist Arthur Dove? How did painter Georgia O’Keeffe and composer Aaron Copland capture the spirit of a youthful America entering the twentieth century? What did Kandinsky and Schoenberg share in their artistic visions? Leach takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the lives of these artists, surveying many of the key movements in the twentieth century by comparing representative works from the modern masters of the visual arts and music. Leach’s refreshing and innovation approach will interest those passionate about twentieth-century art and music and is ideal for any student or instructor, museum docent, or music programmer seeking to draw the lines of connection between these two art forms.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2014
Copyright Year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-8346-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8108-8347-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 196
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. Ch01. Stuart Davis and the Art of Jazz No access
2. Ch02. Arthur Dove and George Gershwin No access
3. Ch03. Romare Bearden and Visual Jazz No access
4. Ch04. European Artists and American Jazz No access
5. Ch05. Kandinsky and Schoenberg No access
1. Ch06. Dave Brubeck and His Reflections on Miró No access
2. Ch07. Paul Klee No access
3. Ch08. Mark Rothko and Morton Feldman No access
4. Ch09. Earle Brown and Alexander Calder No access
5. Ch10. John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg No access
1. Ch11. Claude Debussy and the Fin-de-Siècle No access
2. Ch12. Cubism in Art and Music No access
3. Ch13. Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernist Composers No access
4. Ch14. Diego Rivera and Carlos Chávez No access
5. Ch15. Minimalism in Art and Music No access
Postlude No access Pages 177 - 178
Glossary of Musical Terms No access Pages 179 - 182
Works Cited No access Pages 183 - 190
Index No access Pages 191 - 194
About the Author No access Pages 195 - 196