Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond

by Peter Dayan

In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a painting does not represent, what is it, other than mere paint, flung in the public's face? Whistler's answer was simple: painting is music - or it is poetry. Georges Braque, half a century later, echoed Whistler's answer. So did Braque's friends Apollinaire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075466791X
• ISBN13: 9780754667919
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages