Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siecle

Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siecle

Seeing and Hearing the Beyond

Foot, Michelle; Chong, Corrinne

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2024

252

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9781032145662

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Introduction: Aspiring Towards the Absolute Setting the Stage: A Symbolist Prelude 1. Music and Aesthetic Liturgy in Symbolist Art Salons: The Cases of Josephin Peladan and Jean Delville 2. Deathbed Conversions, Troglodytes, and Baths for the Brain: Mysticism in the Fin-de-siecle Historical Imagination 3. "En blanc et immobile": Erik Satie, Mysticism and Whiteness 4."Josephin 'Sar' Peladan, Charles Tournemire, and Apocalyptic Mysticism Synaesthesia in Scandinavia 5. Musical Interaction with Finnish Visual Arts: The Composer Jean Sibelius, and Artists Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Oscar Parviainen and Ellen Thesleff 6. Sexing Parsifal: Gendered Synaesthesia and Transpositions in Hilma af Klint's Abstraction Vibrations, Abstraction, and Tonality: Giving Sound Form 7. George Frederic Watts's "Mesmeric Dolls": Music and Theosophy in the Painter's Late Works 8. Composing "Symmorphies": Chromatism, Astral Vision and Music of the Spheres in Frantisek Kupka's Cosmological Modernism 9. Ringing Cosmos, Returning Souls: Expressions of the Beyond in Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 10 and Kandinsky's All Saints Day Paintings 10. Music as Key to the Beyond: Steiner and Kandinsky's Scenic Compositions against Materialism 11. Tonality and (the) "Beyond": Elgar's Gerontius and String Quartet Piacevole
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