Hitting the buffers
Peter Wollen, 8 September 1994
Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916
by Christopher Butler.
Oxford, 318 pp., £27.50, April 1994,0 19 811746 9 Show More
by Christopher Butler.
Oxford, 318 pp., £27.50, April 1994,
“... them and improvised a dance to the music, concluding by pointing to that painting which he felt best expressed what he had just danced. As Butler recounts, in what is really the centrepiece of his book, Kandinsky was so excited by hearing a concert of Schoenberg’s music in 1911 that he wrote immediately to the composer and struck up a relationship with ... ”