Towards a Poetics of Music and the Arts : Selected Thoughts and Aphorisms with Works with Music by Ana Maria Pacheco

Our specialist times, with everyone confined to their own discipline, have left little room for the age-old view that, however transmuted, the issues of art and life belong together, or that, for all their differences, the arts have shared concerns: yet realism demands just such an outlook.

This book offers an informal attempt to re-open closed borders by the established writer on music, Christopher Wintle.

Through a host of aphorisms and thoughts it firstprobes people, politics, learning and the Gods.

It then sketches out a Poetics in terms of style and idea, artists, critics, theory, performers, ethics, opera, sculpture, cinema and sport, before ending with a pair of Urban Fables.

The volume includes a collection of Works with Music by the well-known Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco.