RMA STUDY DAY: MUSIC AND MODERNISM
KENNETH CLARK LECTURE THEATRE
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, LONDON
15 - 16 MAY 2009
14.45 - 18.30, Friday 15 May (with registration from 14.15)
10.00 - 18.00, Saturday 16 May (with registration from 09.30)
Exploring Kandinsky's contention that the 'various arts are drawing together [...] finding in music the best teacher,' Music and Modernism will re-evaluate the significant connections between the disciplines of music and fine art in the period covering the emergence and flowering of Modernism, c. 1849 - 1950. During this time both music and fine art were concerned with issues of equality, equivalence, relativity and subjectivity - themes that have since been taken as key to the definition of Modernism. Composers and artists repeatedly borrowed from one another, yet their motives have seldom been explored. Did such quotation amount to a conscious statement of their modernity, or was this merely a symptom of shared interests? This study day will question not only what it was music gave to fine art, or fine art music, but will ask whether we can in fact think in terms of two opposing directions of influence in this period at all.
To book a place: £25 (£15 students, Courtauld staff and RMA members) Please send a cheque made payable to 'Courtauld Institute of Art' to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the 'Music and Modernism study day'. For credit card bookings call 020 7848 2785/2909. For further information, send an e-mail to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk .
PROGRAMME
Friday, 15 May
14.15 - 14.45 - Registration
14.45 - 15.00 - Welcome
15.00 - 17.00 - SESSION 1 - Towards New Truth? German Aesthetics and the Claims of Gesamtkunstwerk
Robert Williams Music and Kunstwissenschaft, University of California, Santa Barbara
Diane Silverthorne (Birkbeck College and the Royal College of Art, London), Music, Modernism and the Vienna Secession: Musical Form in Ver Sacrum (1898-1903)
Petritakis Spyridon (University of Crete), Arnold Böcklin and Music: a Case Revisited
Isabel Wünsche (Jacobs University, Bremen), Seeing Sound - Hearing Colour: Synesthetic Considerations in the Russian Avant-garde
17.00 - 17.30 - TEA/COFFEE BREAK
17.30 - 18.30 - KEYNOTE: Professor Peter Vergo (University of Essex). How to Paint a Fugue (and why should anyone want to)?
18.30 - 19.30 - RECEPTION
Saturday, 16 May
09.30 - 10.00 - Registration
10.00 - 11.30 - SESSION 2: Correspondences: Musical-Visual Language in Late Nineteenth Century France
James Rubin (State University of New York), Courbet, Wagner and the Total Work of Art
Michelle Foa (Tulane University), The State of the Arts in Zola's L'Oeuvre
Corrinne Chong (University of Edinburgh), The Transposition of the Vague: Theme and Variations by Fantin-Latour
11.30 - 12.00 - COFFEE/TEA BREAK
12.00 - 13.00 - SESSION 3: Spiritual Harmony? Modernism and the Anglican Church
Ayla Lepine (Courtauld Institute of Art), Sacred Performance: G. F. Bodley's Design for All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge
Douglas Stevens (University of Bristol), The Status and Reception of Musical Modernism in the Commissions of the Mid Twentieth Century Anglican Church
13.00 - 14.00 - BREAK FOR LUNCH
14.00 - 16.00 - SESSION 4: Music and Modern Life
James Mansell (University of Manchester), Music as a Religion of the Future: Ricciotto Canudo, the Musicalists and the Politics of Modernity
Michael Berkowitz (University College, London), Mannes, Godowsky, and Modernism(s): from Music to Photography and Film
Malcolm Cook (Birkbeck Collge, London), Visual Music in Film, 1921-1924: Richter, Eggeling, Ruttman
Jody Patterson (Smithsonian American Art Museum), 'It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing': Stuart Davis and the Fine Art of Jazz
16.00 - 16.30 - TEA/COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 5: Framing the Modern: Retrospect?
Melissa Warak (University of Texas at Austin), Zen and the Art of La Monte Young
Olga Touloumi (Harvard University), The UPIC: Towards the Synaesthetic Promise
17.30 -18.30 - Plenary Discussion: to include John Deathridge and Simon Shaw-Miller
18.30 - CLOSE
Organised by Charlotte de Mille
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