Aaron Copland's America
Aaron Copland's America: a cultural perspective Gail Levin and Judith Tick
Publisher: New York : Watson-Guptill, 2000.
ISBN: 0823001105
DDC: 700.973
Summary:
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum
in Huntington, New York, Aaron Copland's America is a collaboration
between two well-known and highly esteemed scholars, art historian
Gail Levin and musicologist Judith Tick, whose complementary essays
focus on, respectively, Copland's interactions with the art world
(visual and otherwise) and on his music. The book documents Copland's
friendships with painters such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Diego Rivera;
photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand; composers Virgil
Thomson and Igor Stravinsky; choreographers Martha Graham and Agnes
de Mille; and writers Hart Crane and Gertrude Stein, exploring the
direct exchange of ideas these relationships engendered and examining
esthetic and intellectual parallels between their work and Copland's.
At the same time, it looks at how Copland's fascination with folk and
popular culture, native arts, jazz, cinema, and the search for an
American national art gave form to his music, which sprang not only
from his personal talent but also from connections to the powerful
creative forces around him."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Aaron Copland's
America: a cultural perspective, at the Heckscher Museum of Art,
Huntington, New York November 4, 2000-January 21, 2001, curated by
Gail Levin"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-173) and index.
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