Hearing Eye : Jazz and Blues Influences in African-American Visual Art
By: Lock, Graham (Edited by), Murray, David (Edited by).
Oxford University Press. Published: 30/04/2009. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in Harlem Renaissance art, this groundbreaking collection explores the more allusive - and elusive - references to jazz and blues in a wide range of mostly contemporary visual artists. There are scholarly essays on the painters Rose Piper (Graham Lock), Norman Lewis (Sara Wood), Bob Thompson (Richard H. King), Romare Bearden (Robert G. O'Meally, Johannes V:oltz) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (Robert Farris Thompson), as well an account of early blues advertising art (Paul Oliver) and a discussion of the photographs of Roy DeCarava (Richard Ings). These essays are interspersed with a series of in-depth interviews by Graham Lock, who talks to quilter Michael Cummings and painters Sam Middleton, Wadsworth Jarrell, Joe Overstreet and Ellen Banks about their musical inspirations, and also looks at art's reciprocal effect on music in conversation with saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Jane Ira Bloom.With numerous illustrations both in the book and on its companion website, The Hearing Eye reaffirms the significance of a fascinating and dynamic aspect of African American visual art that has been too long neglected. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0195340507/9780195340501
TITLE: Hearing Eye, The
CONTRIBUTORS: Lock, Graham (Edited by), Murray, David (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Oxford University Press Inc, USA
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 30/04/2009
SUBJECT: Art & Design, Music, Music, Modern, Blues, Jazz
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 254mm x 210mm
PAGES: 288
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
ILLUSTRATIONS: 72 halftones
CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Selling that Stuff: Advertising and Early Blues on 78s; 2. Blues on the Brush: Music as Influence in Rose Piper's Blues and Negro Folk Songs Paintings of the Mid-1940s; 3. (Interview with) Bill Dixon: Double Visionary; 4. "Pure Eye Music": Norman Lewis, Abstract Expressionism and Bebop; 5. (Interview with) Sam Middleton: The Painter as Improvising Soloist; 6. The Enigma of Bob Thompson (Richard H. King); 7. (Interview with ) Wadsworth Jarrell and AFRICOBA: Sheets of Color, Sheets of Sound; 8. "We used to say Stashed": Romare Bearden Paints the Blues; 9. "Blues and Abstract Truth": Aesthetic Experience and the Rhetoric of Equivalence in Dialogue between Romare Bearden and Jazz (Johannes Volz); 10. (Interview with) Joe Overstreet: Light in Darkness; 11. Royalty, Heroism, and the Streets: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat; 12. (Interview with) Ellen Banks: The Geometrics of the Score; 13. "And You Slip into the Breaks and Look Around": Jazz and Everyday Life in the Photographs of Roy DeCarava; 14. Jacksons in the House (Musicians Talk Painters): Marty Ehrlich on Oliver Jackson and Jane Ira Bloom on Jackson Pollock
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