In collaboration with The Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Nationalmuseum is organizing the interdisciplinary conference Sensuous Consonance: The visual arts in conjunction with music around 1900 in the autumn of 2024. The aim is to shed light on the multifaceted, international efforts to bring music and visual art together in the period around the turn of the 20th century.
Scholars from all relevant fields of research are invited to propose papers by 1 May 2024.
Deadline, Call for papers: 1 May, 2024
Date: 4 October 2024
Location: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm/ The Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Stockholm
Lanaguage: English
In the decades around 1900 attempts were made to unify music and visual arts in new ways. Richness of colour, dynamism in time and/or space, and a fundamental (though rarely absolute) absence of words – these characteristics united the two art forms, even as they engaged different senses. An artwork that appealed to both the ear and the eye, in one way or another, and that wholly or partially avoided communicating through words, could be assumed to have particularly favourable conditions for imparting a sense of the intimate as well as the sublime, of hidden connections, and of transcendent meaning.
Alice Nordin, Kvinnobyst, variant på "Andante Patetico", 1911. Patinerad gips.
A Swedish example is the intimate artistic and personal interplay between Alice Nordin (sculptor, 1871–1948) and Hugo Alfvén (composer, violinist and painter, 1872–1960), where practices of beholding and listening, of sculpting and musical composition/performance were conjoined reciprocally in a context of romance and aesthetic experiment, visible in Nordin's bust named after the slow movement, “Andante patetico”, of Alfvén’s Sonata for violin and piano (1896). Another example of art and music in conjunction is Gottfrid Larsson’s sculpture Symphony (1906–09) in the old concert hall of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Keynote: Axel Englund, Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, as well as President of the International Association of Word and Music Studies (WMA) : ”The Musical Body Seen and Unseen”.
Call for Papers
With the aim of stimulating cross-disciplinary investigation of such aesthetic endeavours, we invite scholars from all relevant fields of research to propose papers for a one-day conference at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
Organizers
Linda Hinners, curator at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, linda.hinners@nationalmuseum.se
Tobias Lund, musicologist at Lund University tobias.lund@odeum.lu.se, tobias.lund@odeum.lu.se
In collaboration with The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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