The Power of Music: Music in Caricature, Picture Story, and Comic – 1830–1930

Author: Bachmann, Christian A.

Color: Gold

Edition: 2

Page Count: 301

Publication Date: 01-03-2017

Details: Music invented the comic! – This could be an exaggerated way of putting it, given the abundance of visual representations of music. Based on numerous examples selected from a corpus of over 1000 caricatures, picture stories and comics, this book follows a few lines of flight to not only show the role that the depiction of music and musicians, of noise and noisy people, has had in the development of visual storytelling, but also how the techniques of graphically staging sounds invented in Europe came to the USA and found their continuation there in the comic. The virtuoso is at the center: Starting with historical exceptional talents like Franz Liszt, Sigismund Thalberg, Niccolò Paganini and Hector Berlioz, he emerged as a stereotypical figure from the 1830s onwards, whose most famous appearance is undoubtedly that in Wilhelm Busch's picture story Virtuos (A New Year's Concert) from 1865. But Busch could already build on a long tradition, which he in turn used in a masterful way. The most famous artists of their time dealt with music in many ways before and after Busch – including William Hogarth, Grandville, Caran d’Ache, Adolf Oberländer, Hans Schließmann, Ebenezer Landells, Lothar Meggendorfer, Richard F. Outcault, Fredrick Burr Opper and Rudolph Dirks. The traces of their ideas and the techniques they developed can be followed to this day.

EAN: 9783941030893

Languages: German

Binding: Paperback

Item Condition: Collectible - Like New

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