{"product_id":"pyramids-at-the-louvre-music-culture-and-collage-from-stravinsky-to-the-postmodernists-9780674740839","title":"Pyramids at the Louvre: Music  Culture  and Collage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pyramid in front of the Louvre. Buffalo Bills 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  Lger  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 dellarte  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\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45272924356661,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674740831","price":31.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674740839.jpg?v=1780485583","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/pyramids-at-the-louvre-music-culture-and-collage-from-stravinsky-to-the-postmodernists-9780674740839","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}