Beschreibung:
Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual. Sound has either been ignored or has been appreciated in a highly selective manner within a different discipline: music. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the senses. Their work is revolutionary in artistic terms and in what it reveals about human relations, especially concerning issues of gender.
CONTENTS: Sound Art or Sound in Art: What Matters? - Sound Art and the Hierarchy of Senses - From the Bauhaus to Für Augen und Ohren: Gender and the Institutional Incorporation of the Senses of Sight and Hearing - Noise in Painting: Mary Bauermeister's Early Practice and Collaboration with Karlheinz Stockhausen - Unmasking the Masquerade: Aural and Visual Gender Dynamics in the Performance Series Emergency Solos by Christina Kubisch - Playful Imagination: A Comparative Study of Gerda Nettesheim's and Monika von Wedel's Sound Objects - Listen to His Master's Voice: Authoritative Acousmatic Voices in an Audio Piece by Hildegard Westerkamp - Epilogue: Signifying Matter.