Arabesque without End
Across Music and the Arts, from Faust to Shahrazad
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2021
250 pages
978-1-000-46150-3 (ISBN)
Description
Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms. Enthusiastically imported from its Near Eastern sources by European artists, the freely flowing line known as arabesque is a recognizable motif across the arts of painting, music, dance, and literature. From the German Romantics to the Art Nouveau artists, and from Debussy's compositions to the serpentine choreographies of Loie Fuller, the chapters in this volume bring together cross-disciplinary perspectives to understand the arabesque across both art historical and musicological discourses.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 Tables, black and white; 84 Halftones, black and white; 84 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-46150-3 (9781000461503)
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Person
Anne Leonard is Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture and author of The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900.
Content
Introduction: The Arabesque Aesthetic
Anne Leonard
Chapter 1: Spatchcocking the Arabesque: Big Books, Industrial Design, and the Captivation of Islamic Art and Architecture
Margaret S. Graves
Chapter 2: Poet, Artist, Arabesque: On Peter Cornelius's Illustrations to Goethe's Faust
David E. Wellbery
Chapter 3: The Lithographer's Mark and the Magic of Synchrony
Cordula Grewe
Chapter 4: The Decorative Line of the Nabis: Expressivity and Mild Subversion
Clement Dessy
Chapter 5: Ephemeral Arabesque Timbres and the Exotic Feminine
Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Chapter 6: Arabesque in French Music after Debussy
Stephanie Venturino
Chapter 7: Drawing a Line with the Body
Juliet Bellow
Chapter 8: About An Arabesque
Jonah Bokaer
Anne Leonard
Chapter 1: Spatchcocking the Arabesque: Big Books, Industrial Design, and the Captivation of Islamic Art and Architecture
Margaret S. Graves
Chapter 2: Poet, Artist, Arabesque: On Peter Cornelius's Illustrations to Goethe's Faust
David E. Wellbery
Chapter 3: The Lithographer's Mark and the Magic of Synchrony
Cordula Grewe
Chapter 4: The Decorative Line of the Nabis: Expressivity and Mild Subversion
Clement Dessy
Chapter 5: Ephemeral Arabesque Timbres and the Exotic Feminine
Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Chapter 6: Arabesque in French Music after Debussy
Stephanie Venturino
Chapter 7: Drawing a Line with the Body
Juliet Bellow
Chapter 8: About An Arabesque
Jonah Bokaer
