Dancing and Mixed Media: Modern Dance in Early Twentieth Century Culture

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During the first third of the twentieth century, innovators and developers of modern dance evolved exercise systems, established schools, and published books on "dancing" illustrated by numerous photographs. Some of the books are by dancer-authors: Isadora Duncan, Raymond Duncan, Mary Beegle, Helen Moller, Margaret H'Doubler, Eleanor Elder, and Margaret Morris. These media - books and photographs - are also used by art critics, Charles Caffin and John E. Crawford Flitch and photographer, Arnold Genthe in books on...
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Overview

During the first third of the twentieth century, innovators and developers of modern dance evolved exercise systems, established schools, and published books on "dancing" illustrated by numerous photographs. Some of the books are by dancer-authors: Isadora Duncan, Raymond Duncan, Mary Beegle, Helen Moller, Margaret H'Doubler, Eleanor Elder, and Margaret Morris. These media - books and photographs - are also used by art critics, Charles Caffin and John E. Crawford Flitch and photographer, Arnold Genthe in books on dancing and dancers during this period, analysis of their works adds other dimensions to this study. The social, political, and cultural movements of radical utopianism, idealization of nature, rational recreation, anti-Victorianism, and the adulation of ancient Greek culture contribute to understanding the forces which influenced the newly emerging art forms of modern dance and photography.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780820421674
  • Publisher: Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/1/1994
  • Series: New Studies in Aesthetics
  • Pages: 225

Table of Contents

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Preface
1 Cultural Forces Influencing Dancing 1
2 The Dancer-Writers and Their Books 11
3 Dancing in Its Social and Historical Contexts 21
4 The Body, Movement, and Dance Movement 27
5 Natural Dance Composition, Its Performance, and Its Relation to the Other Arts 37
6 Exercise Systems and Technique for Dancing 51
7 Dance Education 67
8 Early Twentieth-Century Modern Dance Theory 77
9 Books and Dance Books 83
10 Photography and Dance Photography 97
Plates 111
References 201
Appendix: Raymond Duncan's "The Dance and Gymnastics" 211
Index 219
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