Ixion

Snijders, John

Abstract

Between 1950 and 1968 the American composer Morton Feldman completed a number of works that experimented with using a radically new musical notational system of drawn extended grids, filled with numbers instead of pitches. These pieces were influenced by Feldman’s involvement with the New York school of the Abstract Expressionist painters, especially the work of Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Mark Rothko. Ixion explores the artistic ideas underpinning Abstract Expressionism and Feldman's graphic scores, focusing mainly on the work 'Ixion', a composition made for Merce Cunningham’s 1958 dance piece Summerspace, with set and costumes design by Robert Rauschenberg.

Citation

Snijders, J. (2023). Ixion. London, UK: Marmelade Publishers of Visual Culture

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Online Publication Date: Sep 12, 2023
• Publication Date: May 1, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jan 9, 2024
• Series Title: Drawing Theory
• ISBN: 9780993337352
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2117508
• Publisher URL: https://www.centralbooks.com/ixion-marmalade.html