Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde by Ryan Doho

Description: Morton Feldman by Ryan Dohoney, Prof Ryan Dohoney Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldmans associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank OHara, Charlotte Moorman, and others. Arguing that friendship and mourning sustained the collective aesthetics of the New York School, Dohoney has written an emotional and intimate revision of New York modernism from the point of view of Feldmans agonistic community. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ryan Dohoney is Associate Professor of Musicology in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, USA. He specializes in experimental music in the US and Europe since World War II. Table of Contents List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Spontaneity, Intimacy, and Friendship in the 1950s2. "Élan vital … and how to fake it"Intermission: The Necessary Other3. The Elegiac Science4. "We broke up because of style"Conclusion: Friendships SilenceAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex Review The book bears powerful testament to his proposal that in writing about friendships mediated through painting, poetry and music one can derive new insights into that painting, poetry and music. * Tempo *The book bears powerful testament to his proposal that in writing about friendships mediated through painting, poetry and music one can derive new insights into that painting, poetry and music. * Tempo *Dohoneys graceful and affecting meditation on the plexus of Feldmans relationships compellingly surveys Feldmans dedication—and his dedications—to his friends, his love for poetry, painting, and for their makers, and the mourning and melancholy that ultimately tied them together. Feldmans music becomes increasingly concerned, in Dohoneys vivid account, with what survives, what endures, and what can still be heard, even as it ebbs. * Martin Iddon, Professor of Music and Aesthetics, University of Leeds, UK *Dohoneys graceful and affecting meditation on the plexus of Feldmans relationships compellingly surveys Feldmans dedication—and his dedications—to his friends, his love for poetry, painting, and for their makers, and the mourning and melancholy that ultimately tied them together. Feldmans music becomes increasingly concerned, in Dohoneys vivid account, with what survives, what endures, and what can still be heard, even as it ebbs. * Martin Iddon, Professor of Music and Aesthetics, University of Leeds, UK *Ryan Dohoneys book distinctively illuminates and contextualizes Morton Feldmans modernist music. It is an account of Feldmans relationships, in particular, with the poet and art writer Frank OHara and the visual artist Philip Guston. Two large themes emerge, friendship and death. This is a new kind of musicology, with much detailed historical research that also finds emotional elements central to understanding the music, an affective account of what Feldman would call his life in art. It puts together the personal and what we have "out there," the music. * Christian Wolff, composer and Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music, Emeritus, Dartmouth College, USA *Ryan Dohoneys book distinctively illuminates and contextualizes Morton Feldmans modernist music. It is an account of Feldmans relationships, in particular, with the poet and art writer Frank OHara and the visual artist Philip Guston. Two large themes emerge, friendship and death. This is a new kind of musicology, with much detailed historical research that also finds emotional elements central to understanding the music, an affective account of what Feldman would call his life in art. It puts together the personal and what we have "out there," the music. * Christian Wolff, composer and Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music, Emeritus, Dartmouth College, USA *Ryan Dohoneys fantastic book on Morton Feldman points to a Copernican turn within studies of the social life of the arts: trapped for decades in the domain of theme and anecdote, friendship here emerges instead as the infrastructure or medium it in fact is. Friendship thus does not "contextualize" Feldmans music from the outside, but rather enables and structures it from within, like the charged gaps between his notes. * Lytle Shaw, Professor of English, New York University, USA *Ryan Dohoneys fantastic book on Morton Feldman points to a Copernican turn within studies of the social life of the arts: trapped for decades in the domain of theme and anecdote, friendship here emerges instead as the infrastructure or medium it in fact is. Friendship thus does not "contextualize" Feldmans music from the outside, but rather enables and structures it from within, like the charged gaps between his notes. * Lytle Shaw, Professor of English, New York University, USA * Promotional This book brings to light a wide range of unpublished archival materials on Feldman and his community, and relates his life and work to the collaboration and conflict in the history of the U.S. avant-garde. Review Quote Dohoneys graceful and affecting meditation on the plexus of Feldmans relationships compellingly surveys Feldmans dedication--and his dedications--to his friends, his love for poetry, painting, and for their makers, and the mourning and melancholy that ultimately tied them together. Feldmans music becomes increasingly concerned, in Dohoneys vivid account, with what survives, what endures, and what can still be heard, even as it ebbs. Promotional "Headline" This book brings to light a wide range of unpublished archival materials on Feldman and his community, and relates his life and work to the collaboration and conflict in the history of the U.S. avant-garde. Feature Though he had a major influence to the avant-garde movement, this is one of the only dedicated studies on Morton Feldman Details ISBN1501345451 Author Prof Ryan Dohoney Short Title Morton Feldman Language English ISBN-10 1501345451 ISBN-13 9781501345456 Format Paperback Subtitle Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Year 2022 Pages 232 Illustrations 23 images Publication Date 2022-03-24 NZ Release Date 2022-03-24 US Release Date 2022-03-24 UK Release Date 2022-03-24 DEWEY 780.92 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-04-20 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134947406;

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