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Counterpoints : dialogues between music and the visual arts / Philippe Junod ; translation by Saskia Brown.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3849 .J8613 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Junod, Philippe, 1938- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Contrepoints. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Art and music.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Painting--Philosophy.
- Painting.
- Multimedia (Art).
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day. Philippe Junod's main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture and architecture. He draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. The Renaissance, Neoclassicism and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as Romanticism, Symbolism and Surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history that provides a critical understanding of a popular but unheralded art form"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Polyphony of Music and Painting 12
- 2 Musical Analogies in Theories of Painting 23
- 3 The New Paragone Debate: Paradoxes and Contradictions 37
- 4 Synaesthesia, Convergence and Correspondences: Yearnings for a Lost Unity 58
- 5 Hearing in Colour: The Transformations of a Myth 68
- 6 Bach Through the Prism of Painting 97
- 7 'Comparison Fever': True or False Friends? 117
- 8 Modern Variations on an Ancient Theme: The Music of the Spheres 127
- 9 A Survey of Architecture and Music 140
- 10 Magister Dixit, or the History of a Misunderstanding 163
- 11 The Paradox of Music with Sculpture 166.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780238111
- 1780238118
- OCLC:
- 966205044
- Publisher Number:
- 99975373142
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