Visual Music: Synaethesia in Art and Music Since 1900

271 pp. Pictorial cloth hardcover in plastic jacket. Illustrations throughout. A dent/creasing to leaves at book edge and slight darkening around edges, but otherwise clean. 0500512175

From Publisher:

Music has inspired some of the most progressive art of our time - from the abstract painting of Wassily Kandinsky and Frantisek Kupka to the mid-century experimental films of Oskar Pischinger and Harry Smith to contemporary installations by Jennifer Steinkamp and Jim Hodges. While early abstract paintings tended to approach music metonymically, the colour organs, films, light shows and installations from mid-twentieth century to the present day engage a range of perceptual faculties to create a plethora of sensations in the viewer. The most complete examination of this phenomenon to date, Visual Music features ninety major works of art plus related documentation, focusing on abstract and mixed-media art forms and their connections to musical forms as varied as classical, jazz and electronica. The book includes three scholarly essays, each discussing a distinct art historical period in depth, and an additional essay by Olivia Mattis that approaches the subject from a musicologist's perspective, as well as a chronology, artist biographies and a selected bibliography.

Product Info

ISBN: 0500512175

ISBN-13: 9780500512173

Publisher: Thames & Hudson 2005

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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