Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts

Type

Book

Authors

Joseph Horowitz

ISBN 10

0060748508

ISBN 13

9780060748500

Tags

Performing Arts, United States, World, General

Description

Decades of war and revolution in Europe forced an "intellectual migration" during the last century, relocating thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States. For many of Europe's premier performing artists, America proved to be a destination both strange and opportune.Featuring the stories of George Balanchine, Kurt Weill, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and many others, Artists in Exile explores the impact that these famous newcomers had on American culture, and that America had on them. - from Amzon

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