Music and modern art [ Texto impreso] / edited by James Leggio.

Preface / James Leggio -- 1. Klimt's Schubert and the Fin-de-Siècle Imagination / Scott Messing -- 2. Plying the Market: Renoir's Young Girls at the Piano Series of 1892 / Charlotte N. Eyerman -- 3. Prometheus and the Quest for Color-Music: The World Premiere of Scriabin's Poem of Fire with Lights, New York, March 20, 1915 / James M. Baker -- 4. Kandinsky, Schönberg, and the Music of the Spheres / James Leggio -- 5. Varèse and Dada / Olivia Mattis -- 6. Popular Models: Fox-Trot and Jazz Band in Mondrian's Abstraction / Harry Cooper -- 7. Jazz Representations and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture: Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity / Donna M. Cassidy -- 8."Time Canvasses": Morton Feldman and the Painters of the New York School / Amy C. Beal

"This volumen is an interdisciplinary study of music and modern art. It shows how modern painters have borrowed ideas from music, just as modern composers have learned from paintings. The focus throughout is on the ways that painters and composers respectively, have taken a "foreign" artistic médium and made use of it in their own creative work. When, for instance, Piet Mondrian painted a geometric abstraction that aimed to reenact the steps of the foz-trot, or when Morton Ferldman intented his instrumental pieces to be "time canvasses", each of them was striving to identify a quality intrinsic to his own art form, unique to his own materials, and yet technical fuctioning of the other art. It is this elusive kind of parallelism -this rich, cross-disciplinary process of mutual inspiration- that the present volumen tries to pin down, in a variety of creative media and artistic movements. The historial figures examined are diverse. The musicians range from Alexander Scriabin to the jazz bandleader Paul Whiteman, and from Arnold Schönberg to Edgard Varèse to Morton Feldman, while including as well a late nineteenth-century look back at Franz Schubert. Among the visual arts treated here, painting predominates, from Pierre-Auguste Renoir's impressionism and Gustav Klimt's Viennese decorative schems, to Vasily Kandinsky's and Piet Mondrian's abstractions, and to Abstract Expressionism. Attention is also given to American film as well as to the esoteric form of the theatrical light show. Taken as a whole, this volumen provides the reader with a wide-ranging yet satisfying specific set of introductions to the interdisciplinary study of music and modern art, opening up many fruitful lines of further inquirí." (cubierta posterior)