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Paperback Improvision: Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz Book
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ISBN: 1350203467

ISBN13: 9781350203464

Improvision: Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz

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Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater) that the most appropriate paradigm for non-figurative art was music. The assumption has always been that this model was most effectively understood as Western art music (classical music).

However, the musical form that was abstract art's true twin is jazz, a music that originated with African...

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