Author: Lillian Loewenthal
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An appreciation of one of the 20th century's most significant artistic influences. A Main Selection of the Dance Book Club.
The Search for Isadora
Author: Lillian Loewenthal
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An appreciation of one of the 20th century's most significant artistic influences. A Main Selection of the Dance Book Club.
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An appreciation of one of the 20th century's most significant artistic influences. A Main Selection of the Dance Book Club.
Isadora
Author: Amelia Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374279985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A fictional "portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life. In her ... novel, Amelia Gray offers a ... portrayal of a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. [The book] seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits, even in the darkest days of her life"--Amazon.com.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374279985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A fictional "portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life. In her ... novel, Amelia Gray offers a ... portrayal of a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. [The book] seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits, even in the darkest days of her life"--Amazon.com.
My Life
Author: Isadora Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Unquestionably brave, creative, and erudite, the free spirit Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) captivated the American, European, and Soviet cultural scenes with her innovative modern dance and un-self-conscious lifestyle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Unquestionably brave, creative, and erudite, the free spirit Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) captivated the American, European, and Soviet cultural scenes with her innovative modern dance and un-self-conscious lifestyle.
Done into Dance
Author: Ann Daly
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819570966
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This cultural study of modern dance icon Isadora Duncan is the first to place her within the thought, politics and art of her time. Duncan's dancing earned her international fame and influenced generations of American girls and women, yet the romantic myth that surrounds her has left some questions unanswered: What did her audiences see on stage, and how did they respond? What dreams and fears of theirs did she play out? Why, in short, was Duncan's dancing so compelling? First published in 1995 and now back in print, Done into Dance reveals Duncan enmeshed in social and cultural currents of her time — the moralism of the Progressive Era, the artistic radicalism of prewar Greenwich Village, the xenophobia of the 1920s, her association with feminism and her racial notion of "Americanness."
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819570966
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This cultural study of modern dance icon Isadora Duncan is the first to place her within the thought, politics and art of her time. Duncan's dancing earned her international fame and influenced generations of American girls and women, yet the romantic myth that surrounds her has left some questions unanswered: What did her audiences see on stage, and how did they respond? What dreams and fears of theirs did she play out? Why, in short, was Duncan's dancing so compelling? First published in 1995 and now back in print, Done into Dance reveals Duncan enmeshed in social and cultural currents of her time — the moralism of the Progressive Era, the artistic radicalism of prewar Greenwich Village, the xenophobia of the 1920s, her association with feminism and her racial notion of "Americanness."
Duncan Dancer
Author: Irma Duncan
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Reprint of the ed. published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn.
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Reprint of the ed. published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn.
Critical Gestures
Author: Ann Daly
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819565660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Part II, Making history, includes reviews and essays on Isadora Duncan.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819565660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Part II, Making history, includes reviews and essays on Isadora Duncan.
Isadora Duncan in the 21st Century
Author: Andrea Mantell Seidel
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786477954
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Part artistic study, part intimate memoir, this book illuminates the technique and repertory of American dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) and her enduring legacy from the perspective of an artist and scholar who has reconstructed and performed her work for 35 years. Providing an overview of modern activities and trends in the teaching and performance of Duncan's dance, the author describes her own work directing The Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble, the company that sought to implement Duncan's mission to create not a school of dance but "a school of life."
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786477954
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Part artistic study, part intimate memoir, this book illuminates the technique and repertory of American dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) and her enduring legacy from the perspective of an artist and scholar who has reconstructed and performed her work for 35 years. Providing an overview of modern activities and trends in the teaching and performance of Duncan's dance, the author describes her own work directing The Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble, the company that sought to implement Duncan's mission to create not a school of dance but "a school of life."
The American Popular Novel After World War II
Author: David Willbern
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.S. was experiencing during those decades. These novels represent the voices of popular conversations, as Americans considered issues of family, class, racism and sexism, feminism, economic ambition, sexual violence, war, law, religion and science. Through the windows of fiction, the book surveys the Cold War and anti-communism, the prefeminist era of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, forms of corporate power in the 1960s and 1980s, the traumatic legacies of slavery and Vietnam, the American fascination with lawyers, cops and criminals, alternate styles of romance in the era of late capitalism, our abiding distrust of science, and our steadfast wonder about the Great Mysteries.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.S. was experiencing during those decades. These novels represent the voices of popular conversations, as Americans considered issues of family, class, racism and sexism, feminism, economic ambition, sexual violence, war, law, religion and science. Through the windows of fiction, the book surveys the Cold War and anti-communism, the prefeminist era of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, forms of corporate power in the 1960s and 1980s, the traumatic legacies of slavery and Vietnam, the American fascination with lawyers, cops and criminals, alternate styles of romance in the era of late capitalism, our abiding distrust of science, and our steadfast wonder about the Great Mysteries.
A Slaver's Adventures on Land and Sea
Author: William Henry Thomes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Body Knowledge
Author: Mary Simonson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199898022
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
While female performers in the early 20th century were regularly advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they wove together techniques and elements drawn from a wide variety of genres and media. Onstage and onscreen, performers borrowed from musical scores and narratives, referred to contemporary shows, films, and events, and mimicked fellow performers. Behind the scenes, they experimented with cross-promotion and new advertising techniques and technologies to broadcast images and tales of their performances and lives well beyond the walls of American theaters, cabarets, and halls. The performances and conceptions of art that emerged were innovative, compelling, and deeply meaningful. Body Knowledge examines these performances and the performers behind them, highlighting the Ziegfeld Follies and The Passing Show revues, Salome dancers, Isadora Duncan's Wagner dances, Adeline Genée and Bessie Clayton's danced histories, Hazel Mackaye and Ruth St. Denis's pageants, and Anna Pavlova's opera and film projects. As a whole, it re-imagines early twentieth-century art and entertainment as both fluid and convergent.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199898022
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
While female performers in the early 20th century were regularly advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they wove together techniques and elements drawn from a wide variety of genres and media. Onstage and onscreen, performers borrowed from musical scores and narratives, referred to contemporary shows, films, and events, and mimicked fellow performers. Behind the scenes, they experimented with cross-promotion and new advertising techniques and technologies to broadcast images and tales of their performances and lives well beyond the walls of American theaters, cabarets, and halls. The performances and conceptions of art that emerged were innovative, compelling, and deeply meaningful. Body Knowledge examines these performances and the performers behind them, highlighting the Ziegfeld Follies and The Passing Show revues, Salome dancers, Isadora Duncan's Wagner dances, Adeline Genée and Bessie Clayton's danced histories, Hazel Mackaye and Ruth St. Denis's pageants, and Anna Pavlova's opera and film projects. As a whole, it re-imagines early twentieth-century art and entertainment as both fluid and convergent.