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Simon Shaw Miller - Talk on Timbre in Art and Music
Simon Shaw Miller - UK Simon Shaw Miller - Timbre in Art and Music - Talk 16 September 2006 Tate St Ives UK BOOK Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage By Simon Shaw-Miller "A study of the relationship between music and the visual arts in the late-19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the modernist period. Reassessing the work of composers and artists such as Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Josef Matthias Hauer and John Cage, Simon Shaw-Miller argues that despite modernism's advocacy of media purity and separation, the boundaries between art and music were permeable at this time, as they have been throughout history. Shaw-Miller begins by discussing the place of Wagner's music and ideas at the time of the birth of moder…