The Hearing Eye: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0195340507 ISBN 13: 9780195340501

Verlag: OUP USA, 2009

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provide[s] stimulation for the brain as well as the eye (Brian Priestley, Jazzwise)

highly readable (Roger Thomas, Jazz UK)

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The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in Harlem Renaissance art, this groundbreaking collection explores the more allusive - and elusive - references to jazz and blues in a wide range of mostly contemporary visual artists.

There are scholarly essays on the painters Rose Piper (Graham Lock), Norman Lewis (Sara Wood), Bob Thompson (Richard H. King), Romare Bearden (Robert G. O'Meally, Johannes V:oltz) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (Robert Farris Thompson), as well an account of early blues advertising art (Paul Oliver) and a discussion of the photographs of Roy DeCarava (Richard Ings). These essays are interspersed with a series of in-depth interviews by Graham Lock, who talks to quilter Michael Cummings and painters Sam Middleton, Wadsworth Jarrell, Joe Overstreet and Ellen Banks about their musical inspirations, and also looks at art's reciprocal effect on music in conversation with saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Jane Ira Bloom.
With numerous illustrations both in the book and on its companion website, The Hearing Eye reaffirms the significance of a fascinating and dynamic aspect of African American visual art that has been too long neglected.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195340507
• ISBN 13: 9780195340501
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Lock Graham, Murray David