Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen

by David Stubbs

Overview

The Tate is the most popular tourist attraction in Europe. Conceptual artists like Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record breaking sums at auction, while the millions commanded by works by Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon make headline news. But while the general public has no trouble embracing avant garde and experimental art, there is mass resistance to avant garde and experimental music — although both were born at the same time and under similar circumstances. And despite the fact that from Schoenberg and Kandinsky onwards, musicians and artists have made repeated efforts to establish a synaesthesia between their two media. In Fear of Music, David Stubbs looks at the parallel histories of modern art and modern music and examines why one is embraced and the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment. Why do people get Rothko and not Stockhausen?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846941795
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	04/16/2009
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Schism 3

Chapter 2 The Art of Noise, the Noise of Art 18

Chapter 3 Stockhausen, Fluxus and all that jazz 42

Chapter 4 Pop Art - From McCartney to Bailey 61

Chapter 5 Europe Endless, Post-Punk to the Nineties - Thus Far, No Further 74

Chapter 6 Art Will Eat Itself? 99

Conclusion 109