Emergency Noises : Sound Art and Gender
Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual, often at the expense of sound art. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the ear. Their work is revolutionary in artistic terms and in what it reveals about human relati...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Peter Lang,
2016
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | German Visual Culture
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| Schlagworte: | Sound in art Arts, German Arts and society Women artists |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (338 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual, often at the expense of sound art. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the ear. Their work is revolutionary in artistic terms and in what it reveals about human relations, especially concerning issues of gender "Cover" -- "Contents" -- "Figures" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Chapter 1: Sound Art or Sound in Art: What Matters?" -- "Post-war decades: If you look at art, open your ears" -- "Materiality: A core theme" -- "Invisible, inaudible: Women artists" -- "No (Sound) Art without women: A collage from three decades" -- "The unfolding story: The chapters and their sources" -- "The relevance of this book: Emergency noises" -- "Chapter 2: Sound Art and the Hierarchy of Senses" -- "Towards a ârevival of the sensesâ: The historiography of Sound Art " -- "Sound Art and theory: A loosening of frontiers" -- "Arts and the senses: How divisions came about" -- "The Romantic aesthetic: Autonomous realms?" -- "Sound: Not a monopoly of music" -- "Ranked and gendered: A history of the senses" -- "Left out of the framework: Technology and the canon" -- "Women amidst binaries: Visually objectified, aurally silent" -- "Chapter 3: From the Bauhaus to Für Augen und Ohren: Gender and the Institutional Incorporation of the Senses of Sight and Hearing" -- "âFor Eyes and Earsâ: The creation of canons" -- "Additional takes on seeing and hearing: Regional exhibitions" -- "Colour, sound, balance: Gertrud Grunow at the Bauhaus" -- "Womenâs rights at the Bauhaus and beyond: A history of battles" -- "Künstlerinnen International: Not mere âwomenâs artâ" -- "Producing (art) history: âproof of existenceâ is not enough" -- "Chapter 4: Noise in Painting: Mary Bauermeisterâs Early Practice and Collaboration with Karlheinz Stockhausen" -- "Artist and composer: Mutual exchanges" -- "Visual and aural parameters: A perpetual balance of opposites" -- "Bauermeister and Cologne: Contributing to avibrant artistic hub" -- "An empowering force "Chapter 5: Unmasking the Masquerade: Aural and Visual Gender Dynamics in the Performance Series Emergency Solos by Christina Kubisch" -- "Challenging male hegemony: Freeing the body, freeing meaning" -- "Emergency Solos: Exposing the masquerade" -- "Stille Nacht" -- "Variations on a classical theme I" -- "Itâs so touchy" -- "Weekend" -- "Private Piece" -- "Break" -- "Erotica" -- "Untitled (Mumie)" -- "Performance art as a medium: Multiplied subjectivities" -- "Kubischâs achievement: Challenging tacit conventions" -- "Chapter 6: Playful Imagination: A Comparative Study of Gerda Nettesheimâs and Monika von Wedelâs Sound Objects" -- "Variations on sound objects: Two distinct approaches from Cologne and its region" -- "Gerda Nettesheim: Musical toys and play" -- "Monika von Wedel: Expanding sculpture via actual and imagined sound" -- "Asserting the âIâ" -- "Chapter 7: Listen to His Masterâs Voice: Authoritative Acousmatic Voices in an Audio Piece by Hildegard Westerkamp" -- "Hildegard Westerkamp: Ecological thinking and gender consciousness" -- "Voices of authority and issues of visibility" -- "His Masterâs Voice: The materiality of law" -- "âPowerful listeningâ: Awareness of sonic environments and their visual sources" -- "Hildegard Westerkamp and Hannah Höch: Polyvocal montages from different times and in diverse media" -- "The significance of His Masterâs Voice: A summary" -- "Chapter 8: Epilogue: Signifying Matter" -- "The five selected practitioners: A review" -- "Extending imagination: Alternative media and sensorial perception" -- "Gender issues: Revisiting meaning and matter" -- "Appendices" -- "Appendix 1" -- "Appendix 2" -- "Appendix 3" -- "Bibliography" -- "Archives" -- "Books, articles, exhibition catalogues, digital sources |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (338 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781787078543 178707854X 9783034319874 3034319878 |