Resumen de Picturing Listening in the Late Nineteenth Century
The music listener in European art attained a newfound prominence from 1880 to 1900. The extraordinary focus on listeners, previously dismissed as passive vessels unworthy of pictorial attention, reflects the role of Wagnerism and Symbolism in overhauling notions of aesthetic experience. Contemporary developments in philosophy and psychology favored the listener, independent even of the music that gave him or her this identity. Presaged by Degas and furthered by artists such as Fantin-Latour, Khnopff, and Vuillard, the new image of the listener marks an uneasy paragone episode in which painters sought for their own art the prestige accorded to music.
