Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl

Diane V. Silverthorne is an art historian and a ‘Vienna 1900’ scholar, with research interests in the synchronicity of music and the visual arts from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. She has published in several anthologies including Music and Modernism 1849-1950 (2012), The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (2013) and Music and Transcendence (2015). She holds a post in cultural studies at the University of the Arts, London and is working on a monograph about Vienna Secessionist and stage designer Alfred Roller (1864-1932) and the aesthetics of the Gesamtkunstwerk.

Contents

Introduction – A Work in Two Parts: Continuities and Discontinuities from Romanticism to Postmodernism
Diane V. Silverthorne (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK)

Prelude – The Musical in Art
Jed Rasula (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)

Part 1: The Musicalization of Art
SPACES OF INTIMACY, TOUCH AND TEMPORALITY

1. Romantic Musical Celebrity and Printed Portraits: Visual Intimacy and Mass-Market Distance
Alan Davison (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

2. Making an Entrance: Manet’s Still Life with Hat and Guitar
Therese Dolan (Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, USA)

3. Time in Fin-de-Siècle Painting
Anne Leonard (University of Chicago, USA)

4. Erik Satie and the Interart Genre
Ann-Marie Hanlon (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Co. Louth, Ireland)

5. The “Figure in the Carpet”: M. K. Ciurlionis and the synthesis of the arts
Spyros Petritakis (University of Crete, Greece)

Part 2: The Musicalization of Art
SPACES OF PERFORMANCE, SOUND AND SILENCE

6. Music, sound and light: Embodied experiences of the modernist and postmodern Gesamtkunstwerk
Diane V. Silverthorne (University of the Arts, London, UK)

7. Squaring the Circle: Wilfred’s Lumia and his rejection of “colour music”
Nick Lambert (Ravensbourne College, London, UK)

8. In concert: The emergence of the audio-visual moment in minimalism
Meredith Mowder (Hunter College, The City University of New York, USA)

9. Riffing the Index: Romare Bearden and the Hand of Jazz
Nikki A. Greene (Wellesley College, Mass., USA)

10. The Politics of Music and Image in Contemporary Iranian art: “the impossibility of putting one’s body and voice on a stage”
Kirstie Imber (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

11. Contemporary Feminist Art, the Musical: Listening to the Visual Legacy of Riot Grrrl
Cara Smulevitz (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)

Postlude
Diane V. Silverthorne and Alan Davison

Bibliography