Untwisting the Serpent - Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts (Paperback, New)

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 Tiresias") 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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1999
First published:	May 1999
Authors:	Daniel Albright
Dimensions:	154 x 230 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	410
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-01254-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-226-01254-9
Barcode:	9780226012544

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