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Eye hEar the visual in music / by Simon Shaw-Miller.
| Author/creator | Shaw-Miller, Simon, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013] |
| Description | xvi, 207 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Opening our eyes to hear more clearly: the culture of synaesthesia -- Pan and panoptes: music aspires to the condition of art -- Scores, Satie and the New York school: mingling image, music and text -- White cubes and black monoliths: a fantasia -- Outside the frame: liminal sights and sounds in the work of Cage and Warhol -- Coda. Art music, seeing sound. |
| Abstract | This book employs the concept of the visual in proximate relation to music, producing a tension: 'is it not the case that there is a gulf between painting and music, between the visible and the audible? One is full of color and light yet silent; one is invisible and marvellously noisy.' Such a belief, this book argues, betrays an ideological constraint on music, desiccating it to sound, and art to vision. The starting point of this study is more hybrid (and hydrating): that music is never employed without numerous and complex intersections with the visual. By involving the concept of synaesthesia, the book evokes music's multi-sensory nature, stops it from sounding alone, and offers music as a subject for art historians. Music bleeds into art and visuality, in its graphic depiction in notation, in the theatre of performance, its sights and sites. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013009011 |
| ISBN | 9781409426448 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1409426440 (hardcover : alk. paper) |