EBOOK Modernist Mysteries: Persephone

In Modernist Mysteries: Persephone, author Tamara Levitz demonstrates how a group        of collaboratoring artists--Igor Stravinsky, Ida Rubenstein, Andr Barsacq, Andre        Guide, and others--used the myth of Persephone to perform and articulate their most        deeply held beliefs about four topics significant to modernism: religion, sexuality,        death, and historical memory in art. In investigating the aesthetic and political        consequences of the artists' diverging perspectives, and the fall-out of their        titanic clash on the theater stage, Levitz dismantles myths about neoclassicism as a        musical style. The result is a revisionary account of modernism in music in the        1930s.