4 Saints in 3 Acts : A Snapshot of the American Avant-garde in the 1930s
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 55276466
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press/The Photographers' Gallery
- ISBN
- 9781526113030
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This multi-component output consists consisted of a co-edited book (with John Sears) – the substantive item of this submission - (40,000 words, 6 chapters, 141 illustrations, Manchester University Press/The Photographers’ Gallery)) and a co-curated exhibition (with John Seers) at The Photographers’ Gallery, London (16 October 2017-18 February 2018). The project focused on photography and its impact on the racial dynamics of the 1934 American modernist opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Allmer co-edited the publication, co-wrote the Introduction (7,500 words) and authored the 4,500-word essay ‘Moving pictures: Photography and Time in Four Saints in Three Acts’. The publication and exhibition examined the roles played by key American artists and studios - including Lee Miller, Carl Van Vechten, Thérèse Bonney, and The White Studio - in representing, promoting, and constructing contemporary audience responses to the opera. The book presents a wide selection of photographs of the cast, performances, and other material - many images reproduced for the first time - alongside essays by John Sears, Lisa Barg, Lucy Weir, Steven Watson, and Christopher Breward, exploring different aspects of the opera, including dance, fashion, music, and avant-garde writing, and photography. Please see the foreword to the book, pp xxiv - xxv, for details of the exhibition.
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- Non-English
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