4 saints in 3 acts : a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s by Allmer, Patricia, editor; Sears, John, 1965- editor; Photographers' Gallery, host institution instant download

4 saints in 3 acts : a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s by Allmer, Patricia, editor; Sears, John, 1965- editor; Photographers' Gallery, host institution instant download

xxvii, 166 pages : 24 cm, 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, Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Photographers' Studio, London, Includes bibliographical references and index, 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