Late thoughts
Subtitle: reflections on artists and composers at work
By: edited by Karen Painter and Thomas Crow.
Contributors: Painter, Karen.; Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
Series: Issues & debates
Publisher: Getty Research Institute; Getty Trust Publications: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780892368136
Subjects: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Ability, Influence of age on.; Arts, Modern.; Artists -- Biography.; Composers -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Collects nine essays that discusses the creativity of influential artists, as well as the legacy of their work following their deaths, and covers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piet Mondrian, Frank Gehry, and others.
Notes: "This volume ... evolved from 'Artists' last thoughts,' a public discussion organized by the Getty Research Institute and held at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 28 May 2002, in concurrence with  'Last and latest thoughts--from Beethoven to the present,' a symposium organized by the Ojai Music Festival and held in Ojai, California, 30-31 May 2002"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On creativity and lateness / Karen Painter; title: Pt. 1. Piet Mondrian's last thoughts / Nancy J. Troy; title: Willem de Kooning : same change / Richard Shiff; title: Unknowing parallels : the last artistic thoughts of Mark Rothko and Eva Hesse / Thomas Crow; title: Frank Gehry in conversation with Ernest Fleischmann / edited by Carol McMichael Reese; title: Pt. 2. W.A. Mozart's Beethovenian afterlife : biography and musical interpretation in the twilight of idealism / Karen Painter; title: Richard Wagner's unfinished symphonies / John Deathridge; title: Between resignation and hope : the late works of Richard Strauss / Bryan Gilliam; title: Idealism and innocence : the failure of opera reform in the late Weimar Republic / John Rockwell; title: A scale of eternity : Gustav Mahler and the autobiographical / Stanley Cavell.