"Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts," will be published by HarperCollins this week. There are chapters on dance, film, theater, music.
A central theme of Joseph Horowitz's study is that Russians uprooted from St. Petersburg became "Americans"--they adapted. Representatives of Germanic culture, by comparison, preached a German cultural bible--they colonized.
Joe writes:
My various speaking gigs include Barnes and Noble (Lincoln Center) Feb. 25 at 7 pm, and Politices and Prose (DC) March 12, 7 pm.
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