Arabesque without End : Across Music and the Arts, from Faust to Shahrazad, Paperback / softback Book

Arabesque without End : Across Music and the Arts, from Faust to Shahrazad Paperback / softback

Edited by Anne Leonard

Part of the Music and Visual Culture series

Paperback / softback

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Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms.

Enthusiastically imported from its Near Eastern sources by European artists, the freely flowing line known as arabesque is a recognizable motif across the arts of painting, music, dance, and literature.

From the German Romantics to the Art Nouveau artists, and from Debussy’s compositions to the serpentine choreographies of Loïe Fuller, the chapters in this volume bring together cross-disciplinary perspectives to understand the arabesque across both art historical and musicological discourses.

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