PAINTING MUSICAL CITY Tapa dura - 1997

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Smithsonian, 1997-01-17. Hardcover. Good.

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Hardcover. As New unpacked from shrinkwrapped bundles in order to mail individual copies. Light green cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; 200 pp.; 8 color plates, 99 bw figures. Focusing on the work of John Marin, Joseph Stella, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, and Aaron Douglas, the author describes music as a cultural marker for American modernist painters who adopted the themes of the musical city, jazz, and the jazz musician to represent the urban scene. She explains how each artist took advantage to varying degrees of avant-garde music, fledgling audio technologies, and an emerging popular culture - moving easily between concert hall and nightclub - to experience and interpret urban dissonance and jazz improvisation. Painting the Musical City explores the complicated relationship between African American culture and modernism, showing how white painters such as Dove and Davis evoked the dynamism of African American music but "painted out" its… Leer más

Smithsonian, 1997-01-17. hardcover. Used:Good.

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Smithsonian, 1997-01-17. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!