Music in American Art

From Resource Library in chronological order:

• Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions (5/29/08)
• San Francisco Psychedelic (2/21/07)
• Picturing the Banjo (12/8/05)
• Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection (11/14/05)
• Striking the Right Notes: Music in American Art (11/3/05)
• Community of Strings: Regionally Crafted Stringed Instruments; article by Joe LoMonaco (11/3/05)
• Rock On! (5/10/05)
• Rock On! The Art of the Music Poster from the 60s and 70s (1/21/04)
• Feelin' Groovy: Rock and Roll Graphics, 1966-1970 (5/20/03)
• The Art of the Music Poster of the 60s and 70s (5/8/03)
• High Society: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury (4/5/02)
• Lyrical Visions: Music and Dance in American Art (9/14/00)
• Aaron Copland's America (8/12/00)
• Jazz: An American Muse (3/9/00)
• William Sidney Mount: Music Is Contagious! (1/18/00)

From other web sites:

Album Cover Art Gallery from the Tralfaz Archives Music Department

"ART VIEW; Black Musicians in Art: Stereotypes and Beyond" by Michael Brenson, August 14, 1988, New York Times

Esther Williams, Art and Music by David Fienen and Donald Myers from Hillstrom Museum of Art

"Hung Up: The State of Rock Poster Art" by Stacey Brook, November 10, 2008, popmatters.com

Morrison Hotel Gallery, a major brand in fine art music photography

Online video:

The Palmer Museum of Art partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for Banjo-Wielding Women, (57 minutes) a lecture by Leo G. Mazow, curator, American Art, Palmer Museum of Art in which he discusses the many female banjoists that appear in myriad American paintings, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements through history. [September 19, 2006]

Sympathy for the Devil [044:45] Chicago Tribune, October 11, 2007. YouTube says: "Chicago"s Museum of Contemporary Art's new exhibit, "Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 is debated by Tribune's music critic Greg kot and art critic Allen G. Artner"

Video Resources:

Frame After Frame: The Images of Herman Leonard. (1998) Documentary profile of photographer Herman Leonard. This documentary was produced and directed by Tika Laudun for Louisiana Public Broadcasting. Louisiana PTV, 7733 Perkins Road. Baton Rouge, LA 70810. 1.225.767.5660 Not known if DVD yet available as of 2/24/09.

Related Books:

Cassidy, Donna M. Painting the Musical City: Jazz & Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997

Farren, Mick. Get on Down: A Decade of Rock & Roll Posters. London: Big O Publishing, 1976.

Grushkin, Paul D. Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996.

Medieros, Walter. San Francisco Rock Poster Art. Exhibition catalogue. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976.

Off the Wall: Psychedelic Rock Posters From San Francisco. Amelie Gastaut, Jean-Pierre Criqui editors. Thames & Hudson, 2005.

Molon, Dominic et al. Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. Chicago: Yale University Press, 2007.

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