[book : Vis*ble De*ds 0f M*sic]

[ The relationships between music and visual art in the first half of the twentieth century are the subject of this book. From Richard Wagner to John Cage, The author explore a number of themes that emerge in the consideration of modernism on the nexus of sight and sound, the spatial and the temporal. This work is not an attempt to cover all instances of art and music’s inter relations in this extraordinary period. Rather, it addresses the media bias of discussions of modernism through consideration of a number of key moments—between c. 1860 and c. 1960, when the purism of modernism (especially in the writings of Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried), in terms of definition through media specificity, is contrasted with the more hybrid and ‘‘theatrical’’ manifestations of practices that operate under the ‘‘surface’’ of this paradigm of modernism ]  [........]