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Michael Tippett based his guitar sonata, The Blue Guitar (1984), on selected stanzas: 19, 30, and 31, from the poem, [6] and John Banville's 2015 novel The Blue Guitar draws its title and epigraph from the poem. Dean Koontz uses lines from the poem as a password in his 2017 book The Silent Corner.
The large, brown guitar is the only significant shift in color found in the painting; [1] its dull brown, prominent against the blue background, becomes the center and focus. The guitar comes to represent the guitarist's world and only hope for survival.
The frontispiece mentions Hockney's dual inspiration as "The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso". [89] The etchings refer to themes of a poem by Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar. Petersburg Press published the portfolio in October 1977.
The Blue Guitar is a suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney, drawn in 1976–77 and published in 1977 in London and New York by Petersburg Press. The frontispiece to the portfolio mentions Hockney's dual inspirations:
In each case, the guitar was designed wholly or in part by Smith. Each design was a full-bodied archtop guitar with a top carved from solid spruce and a back and sides made of solid maple. All the on-board electronics for each guitar, from the small pickup in the neck position through the volume knob to the output jack, were mounted on the ...
The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar (often called simply Blue Guitar) is an album by American singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 1989. [1] [2] Its title is a reference to the Wallace Stevens poem "The Man With the Blue Guitar." [3] Guests include Los Lobos, T-Bone Burnett, Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner and ...
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians.
The Blue Guitar is a 1977 suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney. ... The Man with the Blue Guitar, a 1937 poem by Wallace Stevens; See also