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The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in
Harlem Renaissance art, this groundbreaking collection explores the more allusive - and elusive - references to jazz and blues in a wide range of mostly contemporary visual artists.

There are scholarly essays on the painters Rose Piper , Norman Lewis , Bob Thompson , Romare Bearden and Jean-Michel Basquiat , as well an account of early blues advertising art and a
discussion of the photographs of Roy DeCarava . These essays are interspersed with a series of in-depth interviews by Graham Lock, who talks to quilter Michael Cummings and painters Sam Middleton, Wadsworth Jarrell, Joe Overstreet and Ellen Banks about their musical inspirations, and
also looks at art's reciprocal effect on music in conversation with saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Jane Ira Bloom.

With numerous illustrations both in the book and on its companion website, The Hearing Eye reaffirms the significance of a fascinating and dynamic aspect of African American visual art that has been too long neglected.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: January 02, 2009

ISBN: 0195340515

ISBN 13: 9780195340518

The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical figures and motifs in
Harlem Renaissance art, this groundbreaking collection explores the more allusive - and elusive - references to jazz and blues in a wide range of mostly contemporary visual artists.

There are scholarly essays on the painters Rose Piper , Norman Lewis , Bob Thompson , Romare Bearden and Jean-Michel Basquiat , as well an account of early blues advertising art and a
discussion of the photographs of Roy DeCarava . These essays are interspersed with a series of in-depth interviews by Graham Lock, who talks to quilter Michael Cummings and painters Sam Middleton, Wadsworth Jarrell, Joe Overstreet and Ellen Banks about their musical inspirations, and
also looks at art's reciprocal effect on music in conversation with saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Jane Ira Bloom.

With numerous illustrations both in the book and on its companion website, The Hearing Eye reaffirms the significance of a fascinating and dynamic aspect of African American visual art that has been too long neglected.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: January 02, 2009

ISBN: 0195340515

ISBN 13: 9780195340518

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