This book invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In Looking and Listening, conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach explores unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from the twentieth century, identifying the shared sources of inspiration.

ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: PreludeChapter 1: Stuart Davis and the Art of JazzChapter 2: Arthur Dove and George Gershwin: A Brush with Rhapsody in BlueChapter 3: Romare Bearden and Visual JazzChapter 4: European Artists and American JazzChapter 5: Kandinsky and Schoenberg: On the VergePart II: Interlude 1Chapter 6: Dave Brubeck and His Reflections on Miro: Music and Art across TimeChapter 7: Paul Klee: The Music in the ArtChapter 8: Mark Rothko and Morton Feldman: Somewhere between Presence and Absence, Sound and SilenceChapter 9: Earle Brown and Alexander Calder: Who's in Control?Chapter 10: John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg: Life in Art - Art in LifePart III: Interlude 2Chapter 11: Claude Debussy and Fin de SiecleChapter 12: Cubism in Art and MusicChapter 13: Georgia O'Keeffe and American Modernist Composers: The Spirit of a New CenturyChapter 14: Diego Rivera and Carlos Chavez: Voices of Mexico in Art and MusicChapter 15: Minimalism in Art and MusicPostludeGlossaryWorks CitedAbout the Author