Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art

<em>The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art </em>examines under one umbrella different kinds of analogies mutual influences integrations and collaborations of audio and visual in different art forms. The book represents state-of-the-art case studies with key figures of modern thinking constituting a foundation for discussion. It thus emphasizes avant-garde and experimental tendencies while analyzing them in historical theoretical and critical frameworks. <p/>The book is organized around three core thematic sections. The first <em> Sights and Sounds</em> concentrates on the interaction between the experience of seeing and the experience of hearing. Examples of painting classic and digital animation video art choreography and music performance are examined in this section.<em> Sound Space and Matter </em>explores experimental forms emanating from the expansion of the concepts of music and space to include environmental sounds vibrating frequencies silence language human habitats the human body and more. The reader will find here an analysis of different manifestations of this aesthetic shift in sound art fine art contemporary dance multimedia theatre and cinema. The last section <em>Performance Performativity and Text</em> shows how new light shed by modernism and the avant-garde on the performative aspect of music have led it - together with sound voice and text - to become active in new ways in postmodern and contemporary art creation. In addition to examples of real-time performing arts such as music theatre experimental theatre and dance it includes case studies that demonstrate performativity in fine art visual poetry short film and cinema. <p/>Sitting at the cutting edge of the field of music and visual arts the book offers a unique at times controversial view of this rapidly evolving area of study. Artists curators students and scholars will find here a panoramic view of cutting-edge discourse in the field by an international roster of scholars and practitioners.<br>