Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts. Translation by Saskia Brown.

JUNOD, Philippe

ISBN 10: 1780238118 / ISBN 13: 9781780238111

Published by [Reaktion Books] [2017], [London], 2017

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Size: 8vo. 317pp. Publisher's hardback with printed dust-jacket. Illustrations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts. Translation by Saskia Brown.
• Publisher: [Reaktion Books] [2017], [London]
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780238118
• ISBN 13: 9781780238111
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict associated with multimedia is not a new phenomenon. From opera to the symphonic poem to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day.

The book’s main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture, and architecture. Philippe Junod draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. He explains how the Renaissance, neoclassicism, and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history, one that provides a critical understanding of a popular but previously unheralded art form.

About the Author

Philippe Junod was professor of history of art at the University of Lausanne from 1971 to 2003. He is the author of numerous works on art theory. Saskia Brown is a translator who lives in Paris.