Untwisting The Serpent: Modernism In Music, Literature, And Other Arts
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Untwisting The Serpent: Modernism In Music, Literature, And Other Arts
From its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles (the urinal is a violin!), Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. In Untwisting the Serpent, Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, even though many of the most important artistic experiments of the Modernists were collaborations involving several media—Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a ballet, Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera, and Pablo Picasso turned his cubist paintings into costumes for Parade.
Focusing on collaborations with a musical component, Albright views these works as either figures of dissonance that try to retain the distinctness of their various media (e.g. Guillaume Apollinaire's Les Mamelles de Tirésias) or figures of consonance that try to lose themselves in some total effect (e.g. Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung). In so doing he offers a fresh picture of Modernism, and provides a compelling model for the analysis of all artistic collaborations.
Untwisting the Serpent is the recipient of the 2001 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship of the Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.
Specification of Untwisting The Serpent: Modernism In Music, Literature, And Other Arts
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Author | Daniel Albright |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN-10 | 0226012549 |
ISBN-13 | 9780226012544 |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Publication Year | 1999 |
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