COLE, R orcid.org/0000-0001-6281-3099 (2014) ‘Sound Effects (O.K., Music)’: Steve Reich and the Visual Arts in New York City, 1966–1968. Twentieth-Century Music, 11 (2). pp. 217-244. ISSN 1478-5722
Abstract
This article explores Steve Reich's relationship with New York City's downtown artworld during the latter half of the 1960s, aiming to nuance aspects of early minimalism by tracing diachronic connections with the Park Place gallery, the exhibition Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials, Richard Serra, Sol LeWitt, and movements such as process art and conceptualism. I suggest that, rather than revealing Reich's prior compositional philosophy, his 1968 treatise ‘Music as a Gradual Process’ demonstrated aesthetic cohesion with the stance of a particular milieu, mirroring a broader linguistic turn in contemporaneous art and revealing a certain discrepancy between theory and praxis. Drawing on newspaper reception, I explore Reich's compositions from Melodica (1966) to Pendulum Music (1968), arguing that these pieces gained both aesthetic value and institutional credibility through being understood in relation to concurrent artwork and ideas, affording productive horizons of expectation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2023 14:25 |
Last Modified: | 10 May 2023 14:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/s1478572214000085 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:185615 |