Background
Hertz, David Michael was born on May 30, 1954 in Bay Shore, New York, United States. Son of Joseph H. and Sarah (Lehman) Hertz.
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Angels of Reality: Emersonian Unfoldings in Wright, Stevens, and Ives
( David Michael Hertz demonstrates how three major Americ...)
David Michael Hertz demonstrates how three major American artistsFrank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Stevens, and Charles Iveswere influenced by Emerson’s nineteenth-century transcendentalism. By focusing on the reflective statements of the artists themselves, Hertz shows that Emerson’s belief that all things including matter and spiritare in flux had direct bearing on the form and content of their works. Hertz writes the book as a meditation on the condition of the artist in America, including biographical and historical information as well as his own interpretations of the three artists’ works. In part 1, he examines the emerging creative mind of the architect, poet, and composer, citing Emerson as the central figure who, through his essays, influenced each of them. By tracing their development as powerful and original thinkers, Hertz examines the processes that enabled them to become unique. In part 2, Hertz connects Emerson, Wright, Stevens, and Ives through a shared ideology, evident both in their critical statements and in their creative work. He shows how all three artists had specific, documented knowledge of Emerson’s major works. Their pragmatism, their preoccupation with the primacy of the senses, their love for analogy and loose metaphor, their dedication to individuality and self-reliance, and their eclecticism and conception of originality were shared traits and beliefs gleaned from Emerson.
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Frank Lloyd Wright in Word and Form (World Artists Series)
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Book by Hertz, David Michael
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Tuning of the Word: The Musico-Literary Poetics of the Symbolist Movement
( David Michael Hertz explicates the relationship betwee...)
David Michael Hertz explicates the relationship between the music and poetry of the Symbolist movement, tracing it from its inception in Baudelaire’s verse and Wagner’s music to its final transformation into Modernism in the works of Schoenberg. Hertz begins by examining the concept of the period, the well-rounded phrase of verse or music, which was attacked first in Wagner’s use of the leitmotif and unusual intervals such as the tritone. Such musical elements created a feeling of emotion directly expressed, unhampered by convention. This approach was further developed by Mallarmé, who stripped his verse of its conventional framework in an attempt to create images of pure emotion. Mallarmé in turn influenced Debussy. Hertz shows that in setting Mallarmés verse, Debussy moved further away from the standard harmonic structures of the nineteenth century, particularly in his use of tonal ambiguity. Hertz explores the aesthetic of the Symbolist movement as embodied in the unique forms that characterized the era, the tone poem and the lyric play. He dem- onstrates the particular importance of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mé1isande, which was scored by Debussy. A revolutionary work difficult to characterize, it speaks gracefully of the transformation of Romanticism into Modernism. Citing examples of art, literature, and music, Hertz finds ultimately that the Symbolist aesthetic came to encompass the entire artistic world. Only a scholar thoroughly at home in both the literary and musical realms and possessing a sovereign command of the cultural climate and currents of the period would be able to deliver exactly what his subtitle promises: a musico- literary poetics of the Symbolist movement.
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David Michael Hertz
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Bachelor, Indiana University, 1976. Bachelor of Science in Music, Indiana University, 1977. Master of Arts in Company Literature, Indiana University, 1979.
Doctor of Philosophy in Comp Literature, New York University, 1983.
Career
Mellon postdoctoral fellow, New York University, 1983-1984; assistant professor, New York University, 1984-1986; assistant professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1987-1989; associate professor comparative literature, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1989-1994; professor comparative literature, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1994; director undergraduate studies Comparative Literature, 1990-1993; director graduate studies Comparative Literature, 1993-1996.
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Tuning of the Word: The Musico-Literary Poetics of the Symbolist Movement
( David Michael Hertz explicates the relationship betwee...)
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Angels of Reality: Emersonian Unfoldings in Wright, Stevens, and Ives
( David Michael Hertz demonstrates how three major Americ...)
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Frank Lloyd Wright in Word and Form (World Artists Series)
(Book by Hertz, David Michael)
- Frank Lloyd Wright: In Word Form
- Frank Lloyd Wright: In Word Form by David Michael Hertz (1994-11-01)
- Frank Lloyd Wright in Word and Form (World Artists Series) by David Michael Hertz (1995-02-03)
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Tuning of the Word: The Musico-Literary Poetics of the Symbolist Movement
Membership
Appointed member National Endowment for Humanities Council on the Humanities, 2003—2006, since 2008. Member Modern Language Association, International Company Literature Association, American Company Literature Association.
