Mark Tobey and Music
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| Publisher | Archive Books |
| ISBN | 9783948212261 |
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The importance that making music (as well as listening to it and thinking about it) had for Mark Tobey is well known. Reflections have been made on his being a painter and his sitting at the piano, the habit and pleasure of a lifetime. However, the present work intends to explore in due depth the theme of Mark Tobey’s relationship to music for the first time, highlighting both its expression and consequences. In concrete terms, what was making music for him? What traces remained of this assiduous practice? Which (at times absolutely central) figures of the music of his day was he closest to and what exchanges were there between them? What meaning did all this have for him? A research project of this kind,with the new acquisitions that accompany it, is destined to qualify the figure of Tobey the painter and illuminate it. The eye that beholds his production, once aware of the world of sounds that nourished, that shaped these works, will see them in quite a new light.
| ills colour & bw, 33 x 33 cm, box with books and vinyl, English |
Archive Books
