PETER VERGO

This scholarly, yet jargon-free, exploration of the relationship between music and the visual arts examines how that relationship was conceived at various times by practising artists and musicians, b

Composers and artists have always borrowed from each other. Peter Vergo, for the first time, offers an in-depth study of how and why, in the modernist era, music and painting became intertwined. Artist-composer relationships examined include Debussy's interest in Whistler, Tuner, and Monet, Franz Liszt's fascination with Raphael and Michelangelo, Kandinsky with Schoenberg and Paul Klee's influence from Polyphonic music. How artists attempted to translate musical rhythms, and structures into painting and how musicians developed visual themes, all within the backdrop to modernism, as time of huge change in freedoms, industry, expression, ideological frameworks, and artistic practice.

A fascinating documentary of a much admired artistic movement.A classic text, now in its third edition Brilliantly traces the course of both the Viennese Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte that followed Provides a fascinating documentary study of the successes and failures, hopes and fears of the members of an artistic movement that is much admired today Author is a specialist in early 20th-century German and Russian art The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Secession. Their works at first shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum and their dedication to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage. With 60 new colour illustrations, this classic book, now in its third edition, brilliantly traces the course of this development, of the Wiener Werkstätte that followed, and the individual works of the artists concerned. The result is a fascinating documentary study of the successes and failures, hopes and fears of the members of an artistic movement that is so much admired today.

"La fascinante historia que se oculta tras Viena Secesión, el movimiento artístico que escandalizó a la sociedad europea a finales del siglo XIX. Contiene estudios polifacéticos sobre cómo