The Jazz Century

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents the exhibition "The Jazz Century", curated by philosopher and art critic Daniel Soutif, which will run from 22 July to 18 October 2009.

Along with the cinema and rock, jazz is one of the most important artistic events of the 20th century. This musical hybrid that emerged in the early years of the last century has run the century through, marking every aspect of world culture with its sounds and rhythms.

"The Jazz Century" presents a chronological account of relations between jazz and the arts throughout the 20th century. It shows us how the sound of jazz has nuanced all the other arts, from painting to photography and from the cinema to literature, not forgetting graphic design and cartoons.

The exhibition is organized chronologically along a timeline off which open many smaller independent exhibitions that showcase relations between jazz and other artistic disciplines, thereby explaining the history of the century using music as a leading thread.

ARTISTS OF THE EXHIBITION

Man Ray, James Blanding Sloan, Miguel Covarrubias, Jan Matulka, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, Winold Reiss and Carl van Vechten, Josephine Baker, Paul Colin, Jean Cocteau, Paul Morand, Michel Leiris, Georges Bataille, Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, George Grosz, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Stuart Davis, Thomas Hart Benton, František Kupka, Alex Steinweiss, Piet Mondrian, William H. Johnson, Cab Calloway, Jean Dubuffet, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, David Stone, Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, Marvin Israel, Burt Goldblatt, Reid Miles, Louis Malle, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tàpies, Tharrats, Ponç, Guinovart, Ornette Coleman, Jackson Pollock, Romare Bearden, Bob Thomson, Alan Davie, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gato Barbieri, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Colescott, Christian Marclay, Lorna Simpson, Jeff Wall, Ralph Ellison, David Hammons.

SECTIONS OF THE EXHIBITION

1. BEFORE 1917 2. THE JAZZ AGE IN THE US 1917-1930 3. HARLEM RENAISSANCE 1917-1936 4. WILD YEARS IN EUROPE 1917-1930 5. THE SWING ERA 1930-1939 6. WARTIME 1939-1945 7. BEBOP 1945-1960 / JAZZ-ART IN BARCELONA 8. WEST COAST JAZZ 1953-1961 9. THE FREE REVOLUTION 1960-1980 10. CONTEMPORARIES 1980-2002

The Jazz Century
Kurator: Daniel Soutif

Künstler: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Max Beckmann, Paul Colin, Stuart Davis, Otto Dix, Aaron Douglas, Arthur Dove, Albert Gleizes, Palmer Hayden, Marcel Janco, William H. Johnson, Frantisek Kupka, Jacob Lawrence, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Archibald Motley, Francis Picabia, Jackson Pollock, Bob Thompson. James Blanding Sloan, Miguel Covarrubias, Jan Matulka, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Winold Reiss, Carl van Vechten, Josephine Baker, Jean Cocteau, Paul Morand, Michel Leiris, Georges Bataille, Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, George Grosz, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Stuart Davis, Thomas Hart Benton, Alex Steinweiss, William H. Johnson, Cab Calloway, Jean Dubuffet, David Stone, Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, Marvin Israel, Burt Goldblatt, Reid Miles, Louis Malle, Michelangelo Antonioni, Antoni Tàpies, Joan Josep Tharrats, Joan Ponc, Josep Guinovart, Ornette Coleman, Bob Thomson, Alan Davie, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gato Barbieri, Robert Colescott, Christian Marclay, Lorna Simpson, Jeff Wall, Ralph Ellison, David Hammons