Late thoughts : reflections on artists and composers at work / edited by Karen Painter and Thomas Crow.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Painter, Karen.
• Crow, Thomas E., 1948-

Series:

• Issues & debates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
• Ability, Influence of age on.
• Arts, Modern.
• Artists--Biography.
• Composers--Biography.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2006]

Contents:

• On creativity and lateness / Karen Painter
• Piet Mondrian's last thoughts / Nancy J. Troy
• Willem de Kooning : same change / Richard Shiff
• Unknowing parallels : the last artistic thoughts of Mark Rothko and Eva Hesse / Thomas Crow
• Frank Gehry in conversation with Ernest Fleischmann / edited by Carol McMichael Reese
• W.A. Mozart's Beethovenian afterlife : biography and musical interpretation in the twilight of idealism / Karen Painter
• Richard Wagner's unfinished symphonies / John Deathridge
• Between resignation and hope : the late works of Richard Strauss / Bryan Gilliam
• Idealism and innocence : the failure of opera reform in the late Weimar Republic / John Rockwell
• A scale of eternity : Gustav Mahler and the autobiographical / Stanley Cavell.

Notes:

• "This volume ... evolved from 'Artists' last thoughts,' a public discussion organized by the Getty Research Institute and held at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 28 May 2002, in concurrence with 'Last and latest thoughts--from Beethoven to the present,' a symposium organized by the Ojai Music Festival and held in Ojai, California, 30-31 May 2002."
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0892368136

OCLC:

62858055

Publisher Number:

9780892368136