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Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the
public's face'. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied
that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a
painting does not represent, what is it, other than mere paint,
flung in the public's face? Whistler's answer was simple: painting
is music - or it is poetry. Georges Braque, half a century later,
echoed Whistler's answer. So did Braque's friends Apollinaire and
Ponge. They presented their poetry as music too - and as painting.
But meanwhile, composers such as Satie and Stravinsky were
presenting their own art - music - as if it transposed the values
of painting or of poetry. The fundamental principle of this
intermedial aesthetic, which bound together an extraordinary
fraternity of artists in all media in Paris, from 1885 to 1945, was
this: we must always think about the value of a work of art, not
within the logic of its own medium, but as if it transposed the
value of art in another medium. Peter Dayan traces the history of
this principle: how it created our very notion of 'great art', why
it declined as a vision from the 1960s and how, in the 21st
century, it is fighting back.
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