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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leach, Brenda Lynne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and music.

Jazz in art.

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<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>

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-22704-5

1-4422-4131-4

0-8108-8347-3

OCLC:

896794442