Les Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays by Lorraine Hansberry

Les Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays by Lorraine Hansberry

This latest volume in MoMA's Primary Documents series provides an anthology of the writings of M rio Pedrosa, Brazil's preeminent critic of art, culture, and politics and one of Latin America's most frequently cited public intellectuals. It is the first publication to provide comprehensive English translations of Pedrosa's writings, which are indispensable to understanding Brazilian art of the twentieth century. Included texts range from art and architectural criticism and theory to political writings as well as correspondence with his artistic and political interlocutors, among them such luminaries as Andr Breton, Alexander Calder, Lygia Clark, Ferreira Gullar, Oscar Niemeyer, H lio Oiticica, Pablo Picasso, Luiz In cio Lula da Silva, Harald Szeeman, and Leon Trotsky. The book also features newly-commissioned essays by important scholars in the field that contextualize central themes of Pedrosa's writing and frame the importance of his thought for twentieth-century Brazilian art as well as the history of modernism writ large. These new translations will contribute to the international recognition of M rio Pedrosa's importance to the growing fields of global art history and theory. Publication of The Museum of Modern ArtMoMA Primary Documents Contributors: Aracy Amaral, Ot lia Arantes, Dore Ashton, Catherine Bompuis, Kaira Caba as, Lauro Cavalcanti, Marcio Doctors, Gloria Ferreira, Adele Nelson

Lorraine Hansberry won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play of the Year at the age of twenty-nine, making her the youngest American, fifth woman, and first black playwright to do so. Her novel A Raisin in the Sun has been published and produced in more than 30 countries, and her film adaptation was nominated for Best Screenplay by New York critics and won a Cannes Film Festival Award. Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer at the age of thirty-four, during the run of her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Her renown has only grown in the years since her death. To Be Young, Talented, and Black, a dramatic biography of the writer told in her own words, was the longest-running Off-Broadway drama of 1969, and has been recorded, filmed, and expanded into a book, as well as touring an unprecedented forty states and two hundred universities.

During the 25th anniversary stage staging of A Raisin in the Sun by the Roundabout Theatre in New York City in 1986, the play was universally regarded as one of the greatest American classics. The PBS American Playhouse TV adaptation of the 25th-anniversary version garnered one of the greatest viewing crowds in PBS history when it premiered in 1990. Les Blancs, her final play, which was produced posthumously on Broadway and subsequently in notable regional theaters, has been acclaimed as her best by a number of critics.

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ISBN 13	9780679755326
ISBN 10	0679755322
Title	Les Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays
Author	Lorraine Hansberry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1994-12-13
Number of pages	288
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