Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond

Download or read book Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond written by Peter Dayan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary fraternity of poets, painters and composers in Paris, between 1885 and 1945, built our modern notion of 'great art' on the principle that we must always think about the value of a work of art, not within the logic of its own medium, but as if it transposed the value of another medium. Peter Dayan chronicles the rise of this principle, describes its eclipse from the 1960s and shows how, in the 21st century, it is fighting back.