Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815-1915 (Hardcover)

Contents: Musical paintings and colorful sounds: the imagery and rhetoric of musicality in the Romantic Age, James H. Rubin and Olivia Mattis. Part I Origins: Opsis Melos Lexis: before and around the total work of art, Simon Shaw-Miller; Caspar David Friedrich and music: a ’divine kingdom of hearing’?, Julie Ramos. Part II Dialogues: Berlioz, Delacroix, and La Mort d’Ophelie, Peter Bloom; Music as magic architecture: immersive environments in Baudelaire and Whistler, Suzanne M. Singletary. Part III Realism and Music: Gustave Courbet and music: soundscapes and the total work of art, James H. Rubin; Music as muse: Thomas Eakins's realist agenda in Elizabeth at the Piano, Debra Hanson; ’One art eating the other’ in A‰mile Zola’s L’Oeuvre, Michelle Foa. Part IV Musicality in Paint: Manet, Liszt and The Old Musician, Campbell Ewing; Strums the word: Manet’s Spanish Singer, Therese Dolan; The musical imagination of Henri Fantin-Latour, Anne Leonard. Part V Grand Schemes and Other Bases: Schwind’s ’Symphony’: Beethoven, Biedermeier, and the cruelty of romance, Cordula Grewe; Burne-Jones’s Le Chant d’amour and the condition of music, Tim Barringer. Part VI Fin de Siecle: Rodin’s Beethoven, Olivia Mattis; Grafting a dream: Henri Bergson, Claude Debussy and Henri Matisse, Charlotte de Mille. Art/Music, Music/Art - a bibliography, Olivia mattis; Index.