Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists And Composers at Work (Issues And Debates Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892368136 ISBN 13: 9780892368136

Verlag: Getty Publishing, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Today the West chronically associates artistic maturity either with transcendence, degeneration, or irrelevance. This volume looks to the nonrepresentational arts of music, abstract painting and sculpture, and architecture for fresh insight into the juncture of aesthetics and mortality.
In part one, Nancy J. Troy considers the fate of Piet Mondrian's final canvases, Thomas Crow finds undiminished joy in abstraction in the last works of Mark Rothko and Eva Hesse, and Richard Shiff explores the eternal "change to stay the same" of Willem de Kooning's final productive decade. In part two, Karen Painter analyzes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's posthumous reputation, Bryan Gilliam examines Richard Strauss's unexpectedly enduring faith in German musical tradition, Stanley Cavell discusses the eternal irresolution of Gustav Mahler's last period, John Deathridge explicates Richard Wagner's ultimately debilitating relationship to symphonic form, and John Rockwell sees the Weimar Republic's demise prefigured in the struggle over state-sponsored opera in Berlin. A conversation with architect Frank Gehry is also included.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Crow is director of the Getty Research Institute and professor of art history at the University of Southern California.

Karen Painter is associate professor of music at Harvard University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Getty Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0892368136
• ISBN 13: 9780892368136
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 235
• Herausgeber: Painter Karen, Crow Thomas E.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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