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,
“... painted water-colours which he then gave, as it they were musical scores, to his composer friend, Thomas von Hartmann, who selected one and, so to speak, played it. Then a third friend, the dancer, Alexander Sacharoff, joined them and improvised a dance to the music, concluding by pointing to that painting which he felt best expressed what he had just ... ”