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Subject(s)

• Arts, Modern—19th century—Themes, motives [Browse]
• Mysticism in art [Browse]
• Mysticism in music [Browse]
• Art and music [Browse]

Editor

• Chong, Corrinne [Browse]
• Foot, Michelle [Browse]

Series

Routledge research in art history [More in this series]

Summary note

"This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume draws on the most current research from both art historians and musicologists to present an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mysticism's historical importance. The chapters in this edited volume gauge the scope of different interpretations of mysticism and illuminate how an exchange between the sister arts unveil an underlying stream of metaphysical, supernatural, and spiritual ideas over the course of the century. Case studies include Charles Tournemire, Joseph Péladan, Erik Satie, Hilma af Klint, Jean Sibelius, František Kupka, and Wassily Kandinsky. The contributors' unique theoretical perspectives and disciplinary methodologies offer expert insight on both the rewards and inevitable aesthetic complications that arise when one art form meets another. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, musicology, visual culture, and mysticism. Corrinne"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I. Setting the stage : a symbolist prelude. Music and aesthetic liturgy in symbolist art salons : the cases of Joséphin Péladan and Jean Delville / Lucien Midavaine ; Deathbed conversions, troglodytes, and baths for the brain : mysticism in the fin-de siècle historical imagination / Tadhg Sauvey ; "En blanc et immobile" : Erik Satie, mysticism, and whiteness / Caroline Potter ; Joséphin "Sâr" Péladan, Charles Tournemire, and apocalyptic mysticism
• Part II. Nordic synaesthesia. Musical interaction with Finnish visual arts : the composer Jean Sibelius and artists Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Oscar Parviainen, and Ellen Thesleff / Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff ; Sexing Parsifal : Gendered synaesthesia and transpositions in Hilma af Klint's abstraction / Jadra Ryle
• Part III. Vibrations, abstraction, and tonality : giving sound form. George Frederic Watts's "Mesmeric dolls" : Music and theosophy in the painter's late works / Spyros Petritakis ; Composing "symmorphies" : chromatism, astral vision, and Music of the spheres in František Kupka's cosmological modernism / Fae (Fay) Brauer ; Ringing cosmos, returning souls : expressions of the beyond in Webern's Five pieces for orchestra op. 10 and Kandinsky's All Saints' Day paintings / Elizabeth T. Abbate ; Music as key to the beyond : Steiner and Kandinsky's scenic compositions against materialism / David Picquart ; Tonality and (the) "beyond" : Elgar's Gerontius and String quartet Piacevole / Oliver Chandler.

ISBN

• 9781032145662 (hardcover)
• 1032145668 (hardcover)
• 9781032162355 (paperback)
• 103216235X (paperback)

LCCN

2023055918

OCLC

1426855215

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