Roger Copeland

Merce Cunningham

The Modernizing of Modern Dance

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Produktbeschreibung

This iconoclastic analysis explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments in American art. Copeland shows how Cunningham moved dance away from the highly emotional, subjective work of Martha Graham to a return to a new kind of classicism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780415965750
• ISBN-10: 0415965756
• Artikelnr.: 21872976

Autorenporträt

Roger Copeland is Professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin College. He is coeditor of the widely used anthology What is Dance? His essays about dance, theater, and film have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many other publications including The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 From Graham to Cunningham: An
Unsentimental Education 2 Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man 3 Beyond the
Ethos of Abstract Expressionism 4 The Limitations of Instinct 5
Contemporary Classicism: Re-Discovering Ballet 6 Primitive Mysteries 7 The
Sound of Perceptual Freedom 8 Cunningham, Cage, and Collage 9 Dancing for
the Digital Age 10 Re-Thinking the Thinking Body: The Gaze of Upright
Posture 11 Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Cunningham 12 Fatal Abstraction:
Merce Cunningham and The Politics of Perception 13 Dancing in the Aftermath
of 9/11 Index