Counterpoints
Subtitle: dialogues between music and the visual arts
By: Philippe Junod ; translation by Saskia Brown
Contributors: Brown, Saskia, translator
Publisher: Reaktion Books Ltd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781780238111
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Multimedia (Art); Art and music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Music; Philosophy; Painting
Work titles: Contrepoints
Description: "Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day. Philippe Junod's main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture and architecture. He draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. The Renaissance, Neoclassicism and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as Romanticism, Symbolism and Surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history that provides a critical understanding of a popular but unheralded art form"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-305) and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: The Polyphony of Music and Painting -- -- 2.; title: Musical Analogies in Theories of Painting -- -- 3.; title: The New Paragone Debate: Paradoxes and Contradictions -- -- 4.; title: Synaesthesia, Convergence and Correspondence: Yearnings for a Lost Unity -- -- 5.; title: Hearing in Colour: The Transformations of a Myth -- -- 6.; title: Bach Through the Prism of Painting -- -- 7.; title: ̀Comparison Fever': True or False Friends? -- -- 8.; title: Modern Variations on an Ancient Theme: The Music of the Spheres -- -- 9.; title: A Survey of Architecture and Music -- -- 10.; title: Magister Dixit, or the History of a Misunderstanding -- -- 11.; title: The Paradox of Music with Sculpture.