Improvision

Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz

Professor Simon Shaw-Miller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-20346-4 (ISBN)

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Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater) that the most appropriate paradigm for non-figurative art was music. The assumption has always been that this model was most effectively understood as Western art music (classical music).

However, the musical form that was abstract art’s true twin is jazz, a music that originated with African Americans, but which had a profound impact on European artistic sensibilities. Both art forms share creative techniques of rhythm, groove, gesture and improvisation. This book sets out to theorize affinities and connections between, and across, two seemingly diverse cultural phenomena.

Simon Shaw-Miller is Chair of History of Art, University of Bristol, UK. He is an Honorary Associate and Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Introduction & Theoretical Preliminaries: Art, Abstraction and All That Jazz
1. The Sight and Sound of Nascent Jazz: Words, Definitions & Rags
2. Orphism and a New Tune I: Dance, Music, Painting
3. Orphism and a New Tune II: Words, Music, Image
4. Orphism in America: Art, Machines and Jazz Rhythm
5. Objects, Improvisation and Rhythm: Kandinsky, Duchamp and Beyond

Erscheinungsdatum	10.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	52 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	1-350-20346-7 / 1350203467
ISBN-13	978-1-350-20346-4 / 9781350203464
Zustand	Neuware