Modernist Mysteries: Persephone

Modernist Mysteries: Persephone
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 688
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ISBN-10 : 9780199730162
ISBN-13 : 0199730164
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Book Synopsis Modernist Mysteries: Persephone by : Tamara Levitz

Download or read book Modernist Mysteries: Persephone written by Tamara Levitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Levitz demonstrates how a group of collaboratoring artists - Igor Stravinsky, Ida Rubenstein, Jacques Copeau, André Gide and others - used the myth of Perséphone to perform and articulate their most deeply held beliefs about four topics significant to modernism: religion, sexuality, death, and historical memory in art.


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