{"product_id":"improvision-9781350203464","title":"Improvision","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Shaw-Miller\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShaw-Miller’s brilliant new volume is a virtuosic critical riff on improvisation as aesthetic principle and artistic practice. Productively entwining histories of jazz and abstraction in 20th-century visual art, this text is a revelatory account of modernism at its most playful and creative. * Daniel Grimley, Professor of Music, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eIn a wide-ranging and compelling argument, Shaw-Miller rethinks the theory and practice of improvisation in early-20th-century transatlantic culture and offers an essential account of the “jazz modernism” that continues to challenge the racial and experiential hierarchies of modernity. * Michael Hatt, Professor of History of Art, University of Warwick, UK *\u003cbr\u003eHaving amassed prodigious research, Simon Shaw-Miller is a terrific Orphic guide to the vast musical-visual territory that he fearlessly traverses. Even as he embraces the mutability of jazz as a category, Shaw-Miller offers a jazz paradigm for the visual arts that is sturdy and capacious enough to accommodate composition, execution, and reception in equal measure. * Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, \u0026amp; Photographs, Clark Art Institute, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u0026amp; Theoretical Preliminaries: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt, Abstraction and All That Jazz\u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Sight and Sound of Nascent Jazz: Words, Definitions \u0026amp; 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084835909975,"sku":"9781350203464","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350203464.jpg?v=1762207307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/improvision-9781350203464","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}