1st Edition
Arabesque without End Across Music and the Arts, from Faust to Shahrazad
Introduction: The Arabesque Aesthetic
Anne Leonard
Chapter 1: Spatchcocking the Arabesque: Big Books, Industrial Design, and the Captivation of Islamic Art and Architecture
Margaret S. Graves
Chapter 2: Poet, Artist, Arabesque: On Peter Cornelius’s Illustrations to Goethe’s Faust
David E. Wellbery
Chapter 3: The Lithographer’s Mark and the Magic of Synchrony
Cordula Grewe
Chapter 4: The Decorative Line of the Nabis: Expressivity and Mild Subversion
Clément Dessy
Chapter 5: Ephemeral Arabesque Timbres and the Exotic Feminine
Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Chapter 6: Arabesque in French Music after Debussy
Stephanie Venturino
Chapter 7: Drawing a Line with the Body
Juliet Bellow
Chapter 8: About An Arabesque
Jonah Bokaer
Biography
Anne Leonard is Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture and author of The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700–1900.
