Pyramids At The Louvre. (music, Culture And Collage/stravinsky/post-modernists.) Glenn Watkins.

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Very good almost as new. Clipped dust jacket. No marks or inscriptions. 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 fresh way of seeing, so collage, in the hands of Glenn Watkins, offers another perspective on the art of this age. In creating a picture of 20th-century music and arts, Watkins's work show how much the current postmodern aesthetic owes to its modernist past.;Behind the many guises of modernism, is found 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 reveals 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 Moguchi; in the anthologies of Nancy Cunard and Alain Locke; in

9.99 GBP