The Triumph of Pierrot: The Commedia dell'Arte and the Modern Imagination / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0271009284
ISBN-13:: 9780271009285
Pub. Date:: 10/12/2001
Publisher:: Penn State University Press

ISBN-10:: 0271009284
ISBN-13:: 9780271009285
Pub. Date:: 10/12/2001
Publisher:: Penn State University Press

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ISBN-13:	9780271009285
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Publication date:	10/12/2001
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Martin Green is Professor of English at Tufts University.

John Swan is Head Librarian at Bennington College.

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1.	Pierrot and Harlequin, Picasso and Stravinsky	1
Chapter 2.	The Spread of the Commedia, 1890-1930	25
Chapter 3.	Diaghilev and Commedia Ballet	54
Chapter 4.	Masks, Mimes, and Meyerhold: Commedia in the Theater	79
Chapter 5.	Chaplin, Caligari, Hollywood, and Harlequin	119
Chapter 6.	Harlequin, Pierrot, Picasso	163
Chapter 7.	Clowns, Puppets, and the New Music	195
Chapter 8.	Literature and the Commedia	233
Chapter 9.	Some Contemporary Images	261
	Epilogue	273
	Bibliography	285
	Index	295

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What do Stravinsky, Degas, Chaplin, Isak Dinesen, Meyerhold, Monty Python, and T. S. Eliot have in common? What do such disparate work as Picasso’s Family of Saltimbanques," Bergman’s Sawdust and Tinsel, Waugh’s Put Out More Flags, and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author share? As [Green and Swan] persuasively argue in their new book, all have been influenced by the Italian commedia dell'arte. . . . Exaggeration, artifice, and a self-conscious theatricality are commedia’s hallmarks; impertinence, mockery, and irony its weapons against the serious threats of the real world. No wonder, then, that commedia (along with the archetypes it supplies) exerted a fierce hold on the modernist imagination, and according to [the authors] left its imprint on virtually every area of Western culture from 1890 to 1930.”
—Michiko Kakutani, in The New York Times
“Green and Swan have given us an extraordinary interdisciplinary work. Using Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the saltimbanque paintings of Picasso and Schoenberg’s musical experiments as the starting point, they examine the modernist consciousness, which evolved from the 16th-century concept of the commedia dell’arte character of Pierrot, the original free-spirited revolutionary of European improvisational theater. Green and Swan are sweeping and occasionally breathtaking as they link the masters of modern literary culture to the tragicomic, grotesque traditions of the Harlequin: in literature, Rilke, Kafka, Brecht, and Weill; in art, Chagall and Rouault; in music, Stravinsky and Ravel; in film, Keaton, Chaplin, and the German expressionist montage of Lang and Wiene. From commedia to Caligari, the theme of this enormously provocative book is revolt and the modern spirit. . . . an intellectual tour de force.”
—Choice

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Revised edition of a study first published in 1986. A lively and far- reaching study of the collection of images and meanings that comprise commedia dell'arte and their continuing impact. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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