Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, October 10, 2015 - March 6, 2016. Essays by Anne Anlin Cheng, Daniel Milnes, George E. Lewis, and others. Includes bibliographical references and index of works.
Contents:
Preface and messages from / Ulrike Groos, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Landesbank Baden Württemberg, Allianz Deutschland AG -- Jonny Spielt Auf: essay / Ulrike Groos -- History of jazz: the birth of a style -- Josephine Baker & the mysteries of the visible: essay / Anne Anlin Cheng -- Le tumulte noir: Josephine Baker as a modernist icon -- Visibility: essay / Markus Müller -- Begin the beguine: jazz and swing from the 1920s to the 1940s -- More than just music: essay / Sven Beckstette -- Little race riot: bebop and abstract expressionism after World War II -- Mutually assured abstraction: essay / Daniel Milnes -- Hyena stomp: geometric abstraction and jazz -- Big Bo: rock 'n' roll, pop, and jazz -- Timeless blues: essay / George E. Lewis -- People to be resembling: artists of the 1970s and beyond use the history of jazz as material -- List of works.
Summary:
"In the 1920s and 1930s jazz from the United States took Europe by storm, conquering the ballrooms and dance halls, bars and cafés, music halls and movie theaters. The new music was the first popular phenomenon -- it was pop before pop existed -- and enthralled the bohemian world and affluent middle class as much as it did adolescents and intellectuals. With works by major artists such as Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Marlene Dumas, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Romare Bearden, Andy Warhol, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Verena Loewensberg, A.R. Penck, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920 demonstrates how jazz provoked a remarkable response from the art scene throughout the twentieth century. This book unites diverse artistic explorations of jazz, starting with paintings of the classic modern period, continuing with works of European and American postwar abstraction, and culminating in contemporary installations and video pieces."-- Provided by publisher.
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