Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond (Routledge Research in Art History)

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Aspiring Towards the Absolute
Part I Setting the Stage: A Symbolist Prelude
	1 Music and Aesthetic Liturgy in Symbolist Art Salons: The Cases of Joséphin Péladan and Jean Delville
	2 Deathbed Conversions, Troglodytes, and Baths for the Brain: Mysticism in the Fin-de-Siècle Historical Imagination
	3 “En Blanc et Immobile”: Erik Satie, Mysticism, and Whiteness
	4 Joséphin “Sâr” Péladan, Charles Tournemire, and Apocalyptic Mysticism
Part II Nordic Synaesthesia
	5 Musical Interaction with Finnish Visual Arts: The Composer Jean Sibelius and Artists Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Oscar Parviainen, and Ellen Thesleff
	6 Sexing Parsifal: Gendered Synaesthesia and Transpositions in Hilma af Klint’s Abstraction
Part III Vibrations, Abstraction, and Tonality: Giving Sound Form
	7 George Frederic Watts’s “Mesmeric Dolls”: Music and Theosophy in the Painter’s Late Works
	8 Composing “Symmorphies”: Chromatism, Astral Vision, and Music of the Spheres in František Kupka’s Cosmological Modernism
	9 Ringing Cosmos, Returning Souls: Expressions of the Beyond in Webern’s Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 10 and Kandinsky’s All Saints Day Paintings
	10 Music as Key to the Beyond: Steiner and Kandinsky’s Scenic Compositions Against Materialism
	11 Tonality and (the) “Beyond”: Elgar’s Gerontius and String Quartet Piacevole
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