4 saints in 3 acts : a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s / edited by Patricia Allmer and John Sears.

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; London : In collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, 2017.

xxvii, 166 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Photographers' Studio, London.

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.

Four saints in three acts : a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s

English

February 19, 2018

Includes bibliographical references and index.