City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

4 saints in 3 acts, a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s, edited by Patricia Allmer and John Sears

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

4 saints in 3 acts

catalogsbibliography

edited by Patricia Allmer and John Sears

a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s

Explores Virgil Thomason's 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts, focusing on the hitherto neglected significance of photography in documenting the opera and its all-African American cast, and examining the roles of fashion, dance, literature, and music in the opera's popular success; includes photographs by Lee Miller, Carl Van Vechten, George Platt Lynes, White Studio and others

Introduction / Patricia Allmer and John Sears -- Moving pictures : photography and time in Four saints in three acts / Patricia Allmer -- Modernism in tableaux : race and desire in Four saints in three acts / Lisa Barg -- Styling Four saints in three acts : scene, costume, fashion, and the queer modern movement / Christopher Breward -- Not so black and white : Frederick Ashton's "outsider" ballet / Lucy Weir -- "As if they were the saints they said they were" : Gertrude Stein's Four saints in three acts and serial resemblance / John Sears -- The visitable past : Four saints in three acts remembered / Steven Watson -- Gallery

Four saints in three acts, a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s