The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts: Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780815333647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 268 str.

Steven Johnson

Opis

As John Cage once recalled, there were four musicians in the early 1950s who, because of their deep interest in art, associated closely with the New York School of painters: Edgard Varese, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman, and Cage himself. This book explores the interaction and influences of the visual arts on these four seminal composers.

Recenzje

"A welcome addition to the scattered and contradictory information previously published about the New York School, this volume allows the reader to hear directly from many of the musicians and artists who came together in New York during the first half of the 20th century . . . Highly recommended." -- R.L. Wick, University of Colorado at Denver, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction: A Junction at Eighth Street Steven Johnson Getting Rid of the Glue: The Music of the New York School David Nicholls The Physical and the Abstract: Varese and the New York School Olivia Mattis Stefan Wolpe and Abstract Expressionism Austin Clarkson John Cage and the Aesthetic of Indifference David Bernstein A Question of Order: Cage, Wolpe, and Pluralism Thomas DeLio Painting by Numbers: The Intersections of Morton Feldman and David Tudor John Holzapfel Feldman's Painters Jonathan W. Bernard Jasper Johns and Morton Feldman: What Patterns? Steven Johnson About the Contributors Index

O autorze

Stephen Johnson is a Professor of Music at Brigham Young University. He lives in Provo, UT.