The Music of Painting

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Music, Modernism and the Visual Arts from the Romantics to John Cage

The Music of Painting reveals how music and painting drew on each other for inspiration and stimulation during the emergence and development of modernism.

Peter Vergo

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Overview

The Music of Painting reveals how music and painting drew on each other for inspiration and stimulation during the emergence and development of modernism.
In this fascinating study, Peter Vergo reveals how music and painting drew on each other for inspiration and stimulation during the emergence and development of modernism
Explores how artists attempted to translate musical rhythms and structures into painting, and how musicians developed visual themes in their compositions
Analyses individual pieces of music and works of art, from Paul Signac’s musical seascapes and Modeste Musorgsky’s popular piano pieces to Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract paintings and John Cage’s silent works
An accessible and insightful exploration of ideas, useful to scholars of art history and music, and fascinating to the general reader

Specifications

Paperback
English
245 x 172 mm, 9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in
384 pp
16 colour illustrations, 130 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714863863
ISBN-10: 0714863866

About the book

Composers and artists have always borrowed from each other. Peter Vergo, for the first time, offers an in-depth study of how and why, in the modernist era, music and painting became intertwined.

Artist-composer relationships examined include Debussy’s interest in Whistler, Tuner, and Monet, Franz Liszt’s fascination with Raphael and Michelangelo, Kandinsky with Schoenberg and Paul Klee’s influence from Polyphonic music.

The Music of Paintingexplores how artists attempted to translate musical rhythms, and structures into painting and how musicians developed visual themes.

In The Press

‘A must have for anyone interested in why Modernism looks (and sounds) as it does.’ Art Quarterly

'A constant source of delight … immensely informative … with its constantly engaging prose and many illustrations this book is extremely enjoyable as well as thought-provoking.’ International Record Review

About the author(s)

Peter Vergo is one of Britain’s leading experts on modern German and Austrian art. He was awarded the Golden Order of Merit by the Republic of Austria for his services to Austrian Art. He has curated exhibitions at the Tate (Abstraction: Towards a New Art), and Whitechapel Art Gallery (Emil Nolde). As editor of The New Museology he launched a controversial debate about the role of museums in society. The first of his two books about the relationship between art and music, entitled That Divine Order, was published by Phaidon in 2005.