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Professor Marcia Pointon is Editor of the journal Art History. She is Pilkington Professor of History of Art at the University of Manchester and the author of many books including, most recently, Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (1993) and (editor) Art Apart: Art Institution and Ideology across England and North America (1994).

Dr Paul Binski is Associate Editor of Art History. He is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge. His most recently published book is Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power 1200-1400 (1995).

Dr Simon Shaw-Miller is Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is editor of The Last Post: Music after Modernism (1993) and the author of a forthcoming study of the relationship of art and music in the twentieth century.

This special issue of the journal Art History marks a breakthrough in publishing new writing on the relationship of visual culture, music and performativity from late Romanticism to Modernity. It covers a range of theoretical and critical issues: the impact of Goethe on Klimt, Paul Klee's musical poetics, the Fluxus movement and questions of interdisciplinarity, Max Klinger's Romanticism and the musical motifs in the work of Catalan artists like Picasso. Art History's issue on art and music is one of the first to introduce inter-media debate into mainstream art-historical publishing. In doing so, it raises new questions about how we define and teach disciplines. This book will be of interest to students of art history, music, musicology and performance theory, as well as of contemporary visual culture.