Thomas Hart Benton and the American sound

Resource Information

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Label

Thomas Hart Benton and the American sound

Statement of responsibility

Leo G. Mazow

Creator

• Mazow, Leo G

Contributor

• Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975

Subject

• Art and music -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Music in art

Language

eng

Summary

• Argues that musical imagery in the art of American painter Thomas Hart Benton was part of a larger belief in the capacity of sound to register and convey meaning
• Alternately praised as "an American original" and lampooned as an arbiter of kitsch, the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton has been the subject of myriad monographs and journal articles, remaining almost as controversial today as he was in his own time. Missing from this literature, however, is an understanding of the profound ways in which sound figures in the artist;s enterprises. Prolonged attention to the sonic realm yields rich insights into long-established narratives, corroborating some but challenging and complicating at least as many. A self-taught and frequently performing musician who invented a harmonic tablature notation system, Benton was also a collector, cataloguer, transcriber, and distributor of popular music. In Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound, Leo Mazow shows that the artist's musical imagery was part of a larger belief in the capacity of sound to register and convey meaning. In Benton's pictorial universe, it is through sound that stories are told, opinions are voiced, experiences are preserved, and history is recorded

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

759.13

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ND237.B47

LC item number

M39 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography