Fear of Music (eBook)

Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen

David Stubbs (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
144 Seiten
John Hunt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78904-066-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An examination of why modern art can be easier to appreciate than modern music.

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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?

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: AndyWarhol • Avant Garde • Avant Garde Art • Avant Garde Music • Composition • contemporary Art • Contemporary Art and Music • contemporary music • Damien Hirst • Duality Between Visual and Performing Arts • experimental art • experimental music • Francis Bacon • History of Modern Art • History of Modern Music • Kandinsky • Mark Rothko • media • modern art • Modern art, modern music, Mark Rothko, Rothko, Stockhausen, Avant Garde music, Avant Garde art, Avant Garde, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, experimental art, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, musicians and artists, media, parallel histories of modern art and modern music, history of modern art, history of modern music, composition, musical composition, experimental music, modern classical music, Modern ensemble music, contemporary art, contemporary and and music, contemporary music, duality between visual a • modern classical music • Modern Ensemble Music • modern music • musical composition • Musicians and Artists • Parallel Histories of Modern Art and Modern Music • Rothko • Schoenberg • Stockhauen
• ISBN-10: 1-78904-066-3 / 1789040663
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78904-066-1 / 9781789040661