audiobook The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture) by From Routledge in Arts-Photography

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Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II; when a group of New York-based musicians; including John Cage; Morton Feldman; Earle Brown; and David Tudor; formed friendships with a group of painters. The latter group; now known collectively as either the New York School or the Abstract Expressionists; included Jackson Pollock; Willem deKooning; Robert Motherwell; Mark Rothko; Barnett Newman; Clyfford Still; Franz Kline; Phillip Guston; and William Baziotes. The group also included a younger generation of artists-particularly Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns-that stood somewhat apart from the Abstract Expressionists. This group of painters created what is arguably the first significant American movement in the visual arts. Inspired by the artists; the New York School composers accomplished a similar feat. By the beginning of the 1960s; the New York Schools of art and music had assumed a position of leadership in the world of art. For anyone interested in the development of 20th century art; music; and culture; The New York Schools of Music and Art will make for illuminating reading.