Music and Modern Art

James Leggio is Head of Publications and Editorial Services at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He has written widely on 20th century art and music. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Table of Contents Series Introduction Daniel Albright Preface James Leggio 1. Klimt's Schubert and the Fin-de-Siècle Imagination Scott Messing 2. Playing the Market: Renoir's Young Girls at the Piano Series of 1892 Charlotte N. Eyerman 3. Prometheus and the Quest of Color Music: The World Premiere of Scriabin's Poem of Fire with Lights, New York, March 20, 1915 James M. Baker 4. Kadinsky, Schoenberg, and the Music of the Spheres James Leggio 5. Varse and Dada Olivia Mattis 6. Popular Models: Fox-trot and Jazzband In Mondrian's Abstraction Harry A. Cooper 7. Jazz Representations and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture: Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity Donna M. Cassidy 8. Time Canvasses: Morton Feldman and the Painters of the New York School Amy C. Beal Notes on the Contributors Index