Peter Vergo

Composers and artists have always borrowed from each other. Peter Vergo, for the first time, offers an in-depth study of how and why, in the modernist era, music and painting became intertwined. Artist-composer relationships examined include Debussy’s interest in Whistler, Turner, and Monet, Franz Liszt’s fascination with Raphael and Michelangelo, Kandinsky with Schoenberg and Paul Klee’s influence from Polyphonic music. How artists attempted to translate musical rhythms, and show more structures into painting and how musicians developed visual themes, all within the backdrop to modernism, as time of huge change in freedoms, industry, expression, ideological frameworks, and artistic practice. show less

The succession was an art movement, in Austria, at the time of Art Nouveau in the rest of the world. Art was locked down in Vienna to the extent that only artists following the classic style favoured by the galleries, stood any chance of getting a viewing.

Some of the artists who thrived in the new system were akin to the art nouveau movement but not all, by any means. One difference that comes up again and again is a more geometric bent to the Vienna school. This has more in common with art show more deco, which followed nouveau in world art.

The book is well written; authoritative, without being condescending. It has many illustrations, sadly, most in black and white, but useful, none the less. show less

I got this as an ex library book. It is a good grounding to the various movements in Vienna during the critical period between 1898-1819. Includes information on Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Olbrich.

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