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Pyramids at the Louvre: Music, Culture, and Collage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists

Watkins, Glenn·1994·Harvard University Press eBooks
DOI 10.4159/harvard.9780674437418
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A pyramid in front of the Louvre. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and The Rite of Spring. Schoenberg and Shirley Temple. Just as the odd juxtapositions of Modernism produced a new way of seeing, so now collage, in the hands of Glenn Watkins, offers a new perspective on the art of our age. A rich and revealing picture of twentieth-century music and the arts, Watkins' work shows us what our present Postmodern aesthetic owes to our Modernist past. Behind the many guises of Modernism we find an appetite for opposing impulses: the exotic and the home-grown, high and low, black and white, the passionate and the cool, the cerebral and the instinctive. Watkins shows us these oppositions at play in the music of Stravinsky and Ravel, Debussy and Schoenberg, Ives, Satie, Hindemith, Ellington, and Gershwin, in the art of Picasso and the Cubists, Cocteau, Léger, Brancusi and Noguchi, in the anthologies of Nancy Cunard and Main Locke, in the ballet companies of Sergei Diaghilev and Rolf de Math, and in the performances of josephine Baker. Throughout, collage asserts its power to enlighten through juxtaposition, resist resolution, sponsor pluralism, and promote understanding of an order that eludes all edicts. The masks of Oskar Schlemmer, of japanese No drama, and of the commedia dell'arte, the mythologies attendant to the retrieval of folk traditions and the emergence of jazz, and the mass relocation of artists in a time of war-all have a place in this depiction and assessment of the legacy…

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Authors
Watkins, G.
Corresponding author
Watkins, Glenn
Venue
Harvard University Press eBooks
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
1994-12-31
DOI
10.4159/harvard.9780674437418
OpenAlex
W564737307
Cited by
155
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 56 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 6
FWCI
4.99
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Modernist Literature and Criticism
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Musicology and Musical Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Music History and Culture
Keywords
modernism, collage, 20th-century music, postmodernism, juxtaposition, primitivism, Orientalism, technology, jazz, ballet, Pablo Picasso, Cubism, Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie, George Gershwin, Oskar Schlemmer, commedia dell'arte, folk customs, Nancy Cunard, Sergei Diaghilev, Josephine Baker, Louvre Pyramid, avant-garde art

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