Dear SLSA,
I would like to add to the book publications, the following book anthology which has just been published by the Routledge Taylor and Francis Group:
Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond. The editors are Corrinne Chong and Michelle Foot.
My Chapter 8 in it is entitled Composing Symmorphies: Chromatism, Astral Vision, and Music of the Spheres in Frantisek Kupka’s Cosmological Modernism. I shall be giving a paper on the development of this chapter at SLSA2024.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Fae.
Fae (Fay) Brauer, BA (Hons), BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FRSA,
Professor Emeritus of Art and Visual Culture,
Centre for Creative and Cultural Practice; Centre for Cultural Studies Research,
School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering,
University of East London
Edited By Corrinne Chong, Michelle Foot
This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century.
The volume draws on the most current research from both art historians and musicologists to present an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mysticism’s historical importance. The chapters in this edited volume gauge the scope of different interpretations of mysticism and illuminate how an exchange between the sister arts unveil an underlying stream of metaphysical, supernatural, and spiritual ideas over the course of the century. Case studies include Charles Tournemire, Joseph Péladan, Erik Satie, Hilma af Klint, Jean Sibelius, František Kupka, and Wassily Kandinsky. The contributors’ unique theoretical perspectives and disciplinary methodologies offer expert insight on both the rewards and inevitable aesthetic complications that arise when one artform meets another.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, musicology, visual culture, and mysticism.
