Artists in Exile

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Studie analyseert invloed en betekenis van de Europese geëmigreerde kunstenaars en denkers - in het bijzonder filmmakers, toneelschrijvers en choreografen - voor de Amerikaanse uitvoerende kunsten in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw. - During the first half of the twentieth century-decades of war and revolution in Europe-an "intellectual migration" relocated thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States, including some of Europe's supreme performing artists, filmmakers, playwrights, and choreographers. For them, America proved to be both a strange and opportune destination. However inadvertently, the condition of cultural exile would promote acute inquiries into the American experience. What impact did these famous newcomers have on American culture, and how did America affect them ? A central theme of 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.