Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage
Simon Shaw-Miller
Abstract
This book explores the relationship between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the modernist period. Reassessing the work of composers and artists such as Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Josef Matthias Hauer, and John Cage, it argues that despite modernism's advocacy of media purity and separation, the boundaries between art and music were permeable at this time, as they have been throughout history. The author begins by discussing the place of Wagner's music and ideas at the time of the birth of modernism, presenting Wagner's aesthe ... More
Keywords: art and music, modernist period, composers, artists, Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Josef Matthias Hauer, modernism, media purity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300083743 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300083743.001.0001 |
