Research Catalog
Art or sound / curated by Germano Celant.
- Title
- Art or sound / curated by Germano Celant.
- Publication
- Milano : Fondazione Prada, 2014.
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- Description
- 519 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- "Art or Sound" aims to emphasize the symmetrical and ambivalent link that exists between works of art and sound objects. It will offer a reinterpretation of the musical instrument and the way it can become a sculptural-visual entity and back again, in a continual reciprocal relationship of encroachment and inversion, a phenomenon seen since the 17th century. The project analyzes the overlap between the production of both art and sound, music and the visual arts, with the aim of highlighting the constant exchange between them, though eschewing unnecessary categorization." The exhibition will feature musical instruments made of unusual and precious materials by Michele Antonio Grandi and Giovanni Battista Cesarini in the 17th century. There will also be musical automata-complex artworks that combine the production of sounds with aesthetic values created by the likes of Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz in the 18th century. "Art and Sound" will then continue with 19th century examples of automated musical instruments and mechanical devices that give visual expression to music through light and color. Other featured works will include research in the field of the synesthesia, experiments carried out by the historical avant-garde artists, such as the celebrated Intonarumori (1913) created by Futurist artist Luigi Russolo, along with some of Giacomo Balla's objects.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy, June 7-November 3, 2014.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-457)
- Language (note)
- Text in English and Italian.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Art or sound: from the multilingual to the multisensory / Germano Celant -- Marvelous illusions: visual and musical beauty from the Renaissance through the 18th century / Deirdre Loughridge -- Sound, music, time and movement: antique mechanical music machines / Christoph E. Hänggi -- Art or sound: from 1520 to c. 1800 -- On sound-graphs: a coordinated look at sonic artifacts / Patrick Feaster -- The archaic elsewhere of skies: thermodynamics and electricity, pantheism and void / John Tresch -- Seeing is not hearing: synaesthesia, anaesthesia and the audio-visual / Christoph Cox -- Art or sound: from early 19th century to 1911 -- Revelation of hidden noises: improbable musical instruments and sound devices in early 20th-century literature / Douglas Kahn -- A metaphysical orchestra: researching and reconstructing the intonarumori / Luciano Chessa -- So rudely forced: the postwar turn from music to sound / Rob Young -- Art or sound: from 1913 to 1952 -- Silence as a musical sculpture: John Cage and the instruments in 4'33" / Eric de Visscher -- Experimental music and performance: David Tudor, John Cage and Merce Cunningham / Geeta Dayal -- Optical noise: the sound of sculpture in the 1960s / Jo Applin -- Art or sound: from 1958 to 1968 -- The noise of surface: making art audible in the 20th century / Alan Licht -- Sound art? Visual arts and sound at the turn of the 1970s-1980s / Simone Menegoi -- Art or sound: from 1970 to 1992 -- Instruments of non-existence (through which heaven and earth seek reconciliation) / David Toop -- Types and one-of-a-kinds: how musical instruments function socially and aesthetically / Bart Hopkin -- Animating ethnographic objects: everyday and extraordinary musical instruments / Noel Lobley -- Art or sound: from 1994 to 2005 -- Twisted synaesthesia: music video and the visual arts / Holly Rogers -- The importance of unpredictability: unexpected dialogues in sound works / Andrea Lissoni -- The magic in instruments: music technologies and commodity fetishism / Jonathan Sterne -- Art or sound: from 2006 to 2014.
- ISBN
- 9788887029567
- 8887029563
- LCCN
- 2014426036
- OCLC
- 886454554
- SCSB-10095929
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library