Counterpoints : dialogues between music and the visual arts / Philippe Junod ; translation by Saskia Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Junod, Philippe, author.

Contributor:

Brown, Saskia, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Art and music.

Painting--Philosophy.

Painting.

Multimedia (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict associated with multimedia is not a new phenomenon. 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 explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day.The book's main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture, and architecture. Philippe Junod draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. He explains how 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, one that provides a critical understanding of a popular but previously unheralded art form.

Contents:

Cover

Counterpoints: Dialogues Between Music and The Visual Arts

Imprint Page

Contents

Prelude

1. The Polyphony of Music and Painting

2. Musical Analogies in Theories of Painting

3. The New Paragone Debate: Paradoxes and Contradictions

4. Synaesthesia, Convergence and Correspondence: Yearnings for a Lost Unity

5. Hearing in Colour: The Transformations of a Myth

6. Bach Through the Prism of Painting

7. 'Comparison Fever': True or False Friends?

8. Modern Variations on an Ancient Theme: The Music of the Spheres

9. A Survey of Architecture and Music

10. Magister Dixit, or the History of a Misunderstanding

11. The Paradox of Music with Sculpture

Coda

Appendix 1: Friedrich Mahling's Bibliography, Studies on Synaesthesia, 1635-1926

Appendix 2: Major Multi-media Works and Events, 1861-2006

Appendix 3: Audio-Visual Installations, Utopian Projects and Machines

Appendix 4: Theoretical Works and Manifestos

Appendix 5: Correlations between Notes and Colours

Appendix 6: Multi-Media Exhibitions, 1961-2006

References

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781780238593

1780238592