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The Resource Pyramids at the Louvre : music, culture, and collage from Stravinsky to the postmodernists, Glenn Watkins
Pyramids at the Louvre : music, culture, and collage from Stravinsky to the postmodernists, Glenn Watkins
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- Summary
- 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, Leger, Brancusi and Noguchi, in the anthologies of Nancy Cunard and Alain Locke, in the ballet companies of Sergei Diaghilev and Rolf de Mare, 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 of Modernism. A heady exploration of questions surrounding Primitivism, Orientalism, and technology as they surface at either end of our century, this book exposes the millennial preoccupations mutually invested in our search for "first times" and our convictions about "the end of culture."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 571 pages
- Contents
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- 1. "And the Moon Descends over the Temple That Was"
- 2. Of Nightingales and Ukiyo-e
- 3. Out of Africa and the Steppes
- 4. "Massacre" and Other Neologisms
- 5. The Creation of the World
- 6. Josephine and Jonny
- 7. The Cunard Line
- 8. Take the "A" Train
- 9. The Valley of the Bells
- 10. Stravinsky and the Cubists
- 11. Obsessions with Pierrot
- 12. Masks and Machines
- 13. Oedipus and Agon: "Husks of Style?"
- 14. Exodus: 1939
- 15. Tristan's Scissors
- 16. Pyramids at the Louvre
- 17. Envoi: The New Cartography
- Isbn
- 9780674740839
- Label
- Pyramids at the Louvre : music, culture, and collage from Stravinsky to the postmodernists
- Title
- Pyramids at the Louvre
- Title remainder
- music, culture, and collage from Stravinsky to the postmodernists
- Statement of responsibility
- Glenn Watkins
- Subject
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- Art and music
- Art and music
- Art et musique
- Arts -- 20e siècle
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Geschichte 1900-1930
- Kultur
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Music
- Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- 1900 - 1999
- Musik
- Musique -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Musique -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Musique -- 20e siècle -- Philosophie et esthétique
- Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique
- Muziek
- Paris
- Postmoderne
- Postmodernisme
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, Leger, Brancusi and Noguchi, in the anthologies of Nancy Cunard and Alain Locke, in the ballet companies of Sergei Diaghilev and Rolf de Mare, 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 of Modernism. A heady exploration of questions surrounding Primitivism, Orientalism, and technology as they surface at either end of our century, this book exposes the millennial preoccupations mutually invested in our search for "first times" and our convictions about "the end of culture."
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1927-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Watkins, Glenn
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML197
- LC item number
- .W437 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Music
- Music
- Art and music
- Musique
- Musique
- Art et musique
- Art and music
- Music
- Music
- Muziek
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Postmodernisme
- Musique
- Musique
- Arts
- Musik
- Kultur
- Postmoderne
- Paris
- Label
- Pyramids at the Louvre : music, culture, and collage from Stravinsky to the postmodernists, Glenn Watkins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. "And the Moon Descends over the Temple That Was" -- 2. Of Nightingales and Ukiyo-e -- 3. Out of Africa and the Steppes -- 4. "Massacre" and Other Neologisms -- 5. The Creation of the World -- 6. Josephine and Jonny -- 7. The Cunard Line -- 8. Take the "A" Train -- 9. The Valley of the Bells -- 10. Stravinsky and the Cubists -- 11. Obsessions with Pierrot -- 12. Masks and Machines -- 13. Oedipus and Agon: "Husks of Style?" -- 14. Exodus: 1939 -- 15. Tristan's Scissors -- 16. Pyramids at the Louvre -- 17. Envoi: The New Cartography
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- ix, 571 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674740839
- Lccn
- 93031703
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)28708575
- (OCoLC)ocm28708575
- Label
- Pyramids at the Louvre : music, culture, and collage from Stravinsky to the postmodernists, Glenn Watkins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. "And the Moon Descends over the Temple That Was" -- 2. Of Nightingales and Ukiyo-e -- 3. Out of Africa and the Steppes -- 4. "Massacre" and Other Neologisms -- 5. The Creation of the World -- 6. Josephine and Jonny -- 7. The Cunard Line -- 8. Take the "A" Train -- 9. The Valley of the Bells -- 10. Stravinsky and the Cubists -- 11. Obsessions with Pierrot -- 12. Masks and Machines -- 13. Oedipus and Agon: "Husks of Style?" -- 14. Exodus: 1939 -- 15. Tristan's Scissors -- 16. Pyramids at the Louvre -- 17. Envoi: The New Cartography
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- ix, 571 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674740839
- Lccn
- 93031703
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)28708575
- (OCoLC)ocm28708575
Subject
- Art and music
- Art and music
- Art et musique
- Arts -- 20e siècle
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Geschichte 1900-1930
- Kultur
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Music
- Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- 1900 - 1999
- Musik
- Musique -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Musique -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Musique -- 20e siècle -- Philosophie et esthétique
- Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique
- Muziek
- Paris
- Postmoderne
- Postmodernisme
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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