Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl: The Musicalization of Art

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the interaction between music and the visual arts from late Romanticism to modernism, crossing Western art and the Middle East. It examines the musicalization of art, focusing on painting, performance, installation, sound-and-silence, and time-and-space, and considers the influence of Wagner, Manet, Satie, Cage, Thomas Wilfred, La Monte Young, and Eliasson. It argues that music is never alone and that a full understanding of the "isms" of the last two hundred years is best achieved when music's influential presence in the visual arts is acknowledged and interrogated.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 18 March 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the interaction between music and the visual arts from late Romanticism to modernism and postmodernism, spanning Western art and the Middle East. It examines the musicalization of art, focusing on the visual and performing arts, and highlights significant instances of intra-art relations between c. 1840 and the present day. The essays reflect on the aesthetic relationships of music to painting, performance, installation, sound-and-silence, and time-and-space, and consider the influence of Wagner, Manet, Satie, Cage, Thomas Wilfred, La Monte Young, and Eliasson. The conviction that music is never alone and that a full understanding of the "isms" of the last two hundred years is best achieved when music's influential presence in the visual arts is acknowledged and interrogated is a key theme of these studies.

Weight: 562g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501376528