Fear of Music (2nd Edition): Why People Get Rothko but Don't Get Stockhausen

David Stubbs

ISBN 10: 1803417609 / ISBN 13: 9781803417608

Verlag: Zer0 Books, 2024

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR014013392

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Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record breaking sums, while the millions commanded by works by Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon make headline news. However, while the general public has no trouble embracing avant garde and experimental art, there is, by contrast, mass resistance to avant garde and experimental music, although both were born at the same time under similar circumstances - and despite the fact that from Schoenberg and Kandinsky onwards, musicians and artists have made repeated efforts to establish a "synaesthesia" between their two media. Fear of Music examines the parallel histories of modern art and modern music and examines why one is embraced and understood and the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment, as noisy, random nonsense perpetrated by, and listened to by the inexplicably crazed. It draws on interviews and often highly amusing anecdotal evidence in order to find answers to the question: Why do people get Rothko and not Stockhausen?

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David Stubbs is a freelance journalist, author, satirist and football obsessive. He works in Britain, and his work regularly appears in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Wire, Men's Health and When Saturday Comes among others. He lives in London, UK.

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Titel: Fear of Music (2nd Edition): Why People Get ...
Verlag: Zer0 Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 2. Auflage