4 saints in 3 acts

A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s
Herausgeber: Allmer, Patricia; Sears, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the remarkable 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts, focusing on the hitherto neglected significance of photography in documenting the opera and its all-African American cast, and examining the roles of fashion, dance, literature, and music in the opera's popular success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781526113030
• ISBN-10: 1526113031
• Artikelnr.: 48216204

Autorenporträt

Patricia Allmer is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh John Sears is an independent scholar

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Anna Dannemann Introduction - Patricia Allmer and John Sears 1
Moving pictures: photography and time in Four Saints in Three Acts -
Patricia Allmer 2 Modernism in tableaux: race and desire in Four Saints in
Three Acts - Lisa Barg 3 Styling Four Saints in Three Acts: scene, costume,
fashion and the queer modern moment - Christopher Breward 4 Not so black
and white: Frederick Ashton's 'outsider' ballet - Lucy Weir 5 'As if they
were the saints they said they were': Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three
Acts and serial resemblance - John Sears 6 The visitable past: Four Saints
in Three Acts remembered - Steven Watson Index