Brenda Lynne Leach

Looking and Listening

Conversations between Modern Art and Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9781442241312
• ISBN-10: 1442241314
• Artikelnr.: 41027192

Autorenporträt

Brenda Lynne Leach, a conductor and music professor, has created many unique programs linking music and the visual arts for museums, orchestras, and universities.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Prelude Chapter 1: Stuart
Davis and the Art of Jazz Chapter 2: Arthur Dove and George Gershwin: A
Brush with Rhapsody in Blue Chapter 3: Romare Bearden and Visual Jazz
Chapter 4: European Artists and American Jazz Chapter 5: Kandinsky and
Schoenberg: On the Verge Part II: Interlude 1 Chapter 6: Dave Brubeck and
His Reflections on Miro: Music and Art across Time Chapter 7: Paul Klee:
The Music in the Art Chapter 8: Mark Rothko and Morton Feldman: Somewhere
between Presence and Absence, Sound and Silence Chapter 9: Earle Brown and
Alexander Calder: Who's in Control? Chapter 10: John Cage and Robert
Rauschenberg: Life in Art - Art in Life Part III: Interlude 2 Chapter 11:
Claude Debussy and Fin de Siecle Chapter 12: Cubism in Art and Music
Chapter 13: Georgia O'Keeffe and American Modernist Composers: The Spirit
of a New Century Chapter 14: Diego Rivera and Carlos Chavez: Voices of
Mexico in Art and Music Chapter 15: Minimalism in Art and Music Postlude
Glossary Works Cited About the Author