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Title: The Sound of Painting: Music in Modern Art (Pegasus Library) by Karin Von Maur, Karin Von Maur ISBN: 3791320823 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Summary: Synesthesia and the origin of abstract art
Comment: In a brief but satisfying small volume, the author describes the fascinating relationship between early modern music and the origin of nonobjective painting. From Claude Debussy's "juxtaposed fields of contrasting tone color", to Schoenberg's concepts of dissonance and polyphonal compositions, the essence of the synesthetic experience became incorporated into a new vision of art, championed best by Kandinsky : "colors and forms could have an intrinsic effect, independent of objects, and that like the tones in music they were capable of engendering reverberations in the mind and soul of the viewer". Well researched and supported by beautiful reproductions, The Sound of Painting compellingly relates an aspect of Modern Art History that is neglected in the "standard" art history tomes. The only weakness of the book is that the author tries (?for completeness) to discuss other aspects of music in painting of the late twentieth century, but it has little of the significance and intrigue of the early twentieth century story told in the first two thirds of the book. A great companion book with a focus on synesthesia, is Kevin Dann's, Bright Colors Falsely Seen.

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