Abstract
Professors Robert Tracy, Louis Kavouras, Adam Schroeder We wish to develop a fresh response to the intimate relationship of art/dance/music—specifically American modern dance (Erick Hawkins’ self-sensing”), jazz (Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke)—and the visual arts—as seen in the contemporary abstract paintings of Ethiopian artist Eyob Mergia. Immediately following WWII, modern dance, Jazz and bebop music proved to be a transformative force from 1945 and, when nuanced with the aesthetic abstract devices utilized by Eyob Mergia, a compelling echo of constructed tonalities reshape themselves into a two-way formal relationship of hearing/seeing/feeling across the media. A compelling and original perspective emerges and this development reshapes the creative image-making process juxtaposed with (not against) the repetitive devices of tonal language. This assessment should show that American jazz and East African abstraction does not subordinate one to the other but, in actuality, finds formal inspiration in both tonal and color tonalities.
Presenters
Robert TracyAssociate Professor/Curator, Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Louis Kavouras
Chair, Dance, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Adam Schroeder
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New Media, Technology and the Arts
KEYWORDS
Art/Dance/Jazz Performance
Digital Media
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