Counterpoints: Dialogues Between Music and the Visual Arts - Hardcover

Junod, Phillipe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780238118 ISBN 13: 9781780238111

Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day. Philippe Junod's main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture and architecture. He draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. The Renaissance, Neoclassicism and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as Romanticism, Symbolism and Surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history that provides a critical understanding of a popular but unheralded art form.

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Críticas

"An astonishing number of books have been written to propose or define various practical and theoretical harmonies of music and art. This is not another one of those books. This work expertly synthesizes the key issues, debates, and voices in the connections (or, just as importantly, disconnects) between music and the visual arts that have been ongoing for hundreds of years. Counterpoints accomplishes this by drawing on a remarkable array of primary and secondary sources from Pythagoras. . . . Junod's cyclopedic knowledge and scholarly acumen, clever, playful style, and passion for music combine to make this a rare scholarly work that deserves readership beyond academia. The illustrations, ranging from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, illuminate the discussion and will intrigue the reader. This book is a polymath's Kircherian exploration. Highly recommended for libraries supporting art, music, and architecture."--Thomas W. Bell, librarian and associate professor, Kansas State University "ARLIS/NA Reviews "

Biografía del autor

Philippe Junod was Professor of History of Art at the University of Lausanne from 1971 to 2003. He is the author of numerous works on art theory.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1780238118
• ISBN 13: 9781780238111
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224