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Book SynopsisIntroducing the concept of music and painting as 'rival sisters' during the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary collection explores the productive exchange-from rivalry to inspiration to collaboration-between the two media in the age of Romanticism and Modernism. The volume traces the relationship between art and music, from the opposing claims for superiority of the early nineteenth century, to the emergence of the concept of synesthesia around 1900. This collection puts forward a more complex history of the relationship between art and music than has been described in earlier works, including an intermixing of models and distinctions between approaches to them. Individual essays from art history, musicology, and literature examine the growing influence of art upon music, and vice versa, in the works of Berlioz, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Rodin, Debussy, and the Pre-Raphaelites, among other artists.
Trade Review'An elegant collection of essays written with breadth and insight on the intersections of music and painting in modernism.' Lydia Goehr, Columbia University, USA
At once historically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, this book offers new approaches to modernism's paradigmatic "rival sisters". Juliet Bellow, American University, USA and author of Modernism on Stage
Table of ContentsContents: Musical paintings and colorful sounds: the imagery and rhetoric of musicality in the Romantic Age, James H. Rubin and Olivia Mattis. Part I Origins: Opsis Melos Lexis: before and around the total work of art, Simon Shaw-Miller; Caspar David Friedrich and music: a ’divine kingdom of hearing’?, Julie Ramos. Part II Dialogues: Berlioz, Delacroix, and La Mort d’Ophélie, Peter Bloom; Music as magic architecture: immersive environments in Baudelaire and Whistler, Suzanne M. Singletary. Part III Realism and Music: Gustave Courbet and music: soundscapes and the total work of art, James H. Rubin; Music as muse: Thomas Eakins's realist agenda in Elizabeth at the Piano, Debra Hanson; ’One art eating the other’ in Émile Zola’s L’Oeuvre, Michelle Foa. Part IV Musicality in Paint: Manet, Liszt and The Old Musician, Campbell Ewing; Strums the word: Manet’s Spanish Singer, Therese Dolan; The musical imagination of Henri Fantin-Latour, Anne Leonard. Part V Grand Schemes and Other Bases: Schwind’s ’Symphony’: Beethoven, Biedermeier, and the cruelty of romance, Cordula Grewe; Burne-Jones’s Le Chant d’amour and the condition of music, Tim Barringer. Part VI Fin de Siècle: Rodin’s Beethoven, Olivia Mattis; Grafting a dream: Henri Bergson, Claude Debussy and Henri Matisse, Charlotte de Mille. Art/Music, Music/Art - a bibliography, Olivia mattis; Index.
