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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463274603321

Autore

Leach Brenda Lynne

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4131-4

0-8108-8347-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

780/.07

Soggetti

Art and music

Jazz in art

Music - 20th century - History and criticism

Art, Modern - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. PRELUDE; Ch01. Stuart Davis and the Art of Jazz; Ch02. Arthur Dove and George Gershwin; Ch03. Romare Bearden and Visual Jazz; Ch04. European Artists and American Jazz; Ch05. Kandinsky and Schoenberg; PART II. INTERLUDE 1; Ch06. Dave Brubeck and His Reflections on Miró; Ch07. Paul Klee; Ch08. Mark Rothko and Morton Feldman; Ch09. Earle Brown and Alexander Calder; Ch10. John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg; PART III. INTERLUDE 2; Ch11. Claude Debussy and the Fin-de-Siècle; Ch12. Cubism in Art and Music

Ch13. Georgia O'Keeffe and American Modernist ComposersCh14. Diego Rivera and Carlos Chávez; Ch15. Minimalism in Art and Music; Postlude; Glossary of Musical Terms; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Looking and Listening</span><span>, 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.</span></span>