...This chapter examines the central defining planks of the modernist canon, particularly the cubism of painter Pablo Picasso. It discusses Clement Greenberg's consideration of cubism in terms of formal innovation, and his views that Edouard Manet was the first modernist and that cubism marks...

...This book explores the relationship between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the modernist period. Reassessing the work of composers and artists such as Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Josef Matthias Hauer, and John Cage, it argues...