Dohoney, Ryan - Saving Abstraction

In this book, author Ryan Dohoney tells the story of the 1972 premier of Morton Feldman's music for the Rothko Chapel in Houston, reconstructing the network of artists and patrons who contributed to the premier, and documenting the ways that they questioned the emotional translation of art into religious stimulation.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
List of Musical Examples
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pursuing Anxiety
Chapter 2: The de Menils's Reality
Chapter 3: Shaken into Seeing and Hearing
Chapter 4: Abstract Ecumenism
Epilogue
Bibliography