This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the 19th century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting in the formulation ut pictura musica. Under music's influence, painting approached the threshold of abstraction and concurrently many composers cultivated pictorial effects in their music.
This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the 19th century, a...
Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.
Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920...
