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4 saints in 3 acts : a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s / edited by Patricia Allmer and John Sears.
Fine Arts Library TR646.G7 F68 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Four saints in three acts.
- Thomson, Virgil.
- Miller, Lee, 1907-1977.
- Miller, Lee.
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
- Van Vechten, Carl.
- Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955.
- Lynes, George Platt.
- White Studio (New York, N.Y.).
- Four saints in three acts (Thomson, Virgil).
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- African American singers.
- United States.
- History.
- Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- African American singers--20th century.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Intellectual life.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Race relations.
- Opera--United States--20th century.
- Opera.
- Local Subjects:
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 166 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Four saints in three acts : a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press ; London : In collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, 2017.
- Summary:
- Explores Virgil Thomason's 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; includes photographs by Lee Miller, Carl Van Vechten, George Platt Lynes, White Studio and others.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Patricia Allmer and John Sears
- Moving pictures : photography and time in Four saints in three acts / Patricia Allmer
- Modernism in tableaux : race and desire in Four saints in three acts / Lisa Barg
- Styling Four saints in three acts : scene, costume, fashion, and the queer modern movement / Christopher Breward
- Not so black and white : Frederick Ashton's "outsider" ballet / Lucy Weir
- "As if they were the saints they said they were" : Gertrude Stein's Four saints in three acts and serial resemblance / John Sears
- The visitable past : Four saints in three acts remembered / Steven Watson
- Gallery.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Photographers' Studio, London.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781526113030
- 1526113031
- OCLC:
- 986237031
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