{"product_id":"untwisting-the-serpent-modernism-in-music-literature-and-other-arts-paperback","title":"Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Albright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eUntwisting the Serpent, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Rite of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e is a ballet, Gertrude Stein's \u003ci\u003eFour Saints in Three Acts\u003c\/i\u003e is an opera, and Pablo Picasso turned his cubist paintings into costumes for \u003ci\u003eParade.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLes Mamelles de Tirésias\u003c\/i\u003e) or figures of consonance that try to lose themselves in some total effect (e.g. Arnold Schoenberg's \u003ci\u003eErwartung\u003c\/i\u003e). In so doing he offers a fresh picture of Modernism, and provides a compelling model for the analysis of all artistic collaborations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eUntwisting the Serpent\u003c\/i\u003e is the recipient of the 2001 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship of the Center for Humanities Research at Texas A\u0026amp;M University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Albright \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eModernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 410\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 9.01 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454528536754,"sku":"9780226012544","price":88.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/33e349a0775017d54cbc1642137928d3.webp?v=1778853577","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/untwisting-the-serpent-modernism-in-music-literature-and-other-arts-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}