Improvision

Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz

AvSimon Shaw-Miller

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater) that the most appropriate paradigm for non-figurative art was music. The assumption has always been that this model was most effectively understood as Western art music (classical music).However, the musical form that was abstract art’s true twin is jazz, a music that originated with African Americans, but which had a profound impact on European artistic sensibilities. Both art forms share creative techniques of rhythm, groove, gesture and improvisation. This book sets out to theorize affinities and connections between, and across, two seemingly diverse cultural phenomena.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-30
Mått:152 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350203464

Utforska kategorier

Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Simon Shaw-Miller is Chair of History of Art, University of Bristol, UK. He is an Honorary Associate and Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Shaw-Miller’s brilliant new volume is a virtuosic critical riff on improvisation as aesthetic principle and artistic practice. Productively entwining histories of jazz and abstraction in 20th-century visual art, this text is a revelatory account of modernism at its most playful and creative.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction & Theoretical Preliminaries: Art, Abstraction and All That Jazz1. The Sight and Sound of Nascent Jazz: Words, Definitions & Rags2. Orphism and a New Tune I: Dance, Music, Painting3. Orphism and a New Tune II: Words, Music, Image4. Orphism in America: Art, Machines and Jazz Rhythm5. Objects, Improvisation and Rhythm: Kandinsky, Duchamp and Beyond