Simon Shaw-Miller

Improvision (eBook, PDF)

Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350203433
• Artikelnr.: 63714721

Autorenporträt

Simon Shaw-Miller is Emeritus Chair of Art History at the University of Bristol, UK, and an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Inhaltsangabe

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