Dance and American art : a long embrace
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Dance and American art : a long embrace
University of Wisconsin Press, c2012
- : cloth
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Mississippi riverboats, or in the streets. Dance and American Art is an innovative look at the elusive, evocative nature of dance and the American visual artists who captured it through their paintings, sculpture, photography, and prints from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The scores of artists discussed include many icons of American art: Winslow Homer, George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Edward Steichen, David Smith, and others. As a subject for visual artists, dance has given new meaning to America's perennial myths, cherished identities, and most powerful dreams. Their portrayals of dance and dancers, from the anonymous to the famous - Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Josephine Baker, Martha Graham - have testified to the enduring importance of spatial organization, physical pattern, and rhythmic motion in creating aesthetic form. Through extensive research, sparkling prose, and beautiful color reproductions, art historian Sharyn R. Udall draws attention to the ways that artists' portrayals of dance have defined the visual character of the modern world and have embodied culturally specific ideas about order and meaning, about the human body, and about the diverse fusions that comprise American culture.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Part One. Art, Dance, and American Consciousness 1 Expressing the Real or Imagined Heritage of a Nation 2 African American Dance and Art: A Confluence of Traditions from Minstrelsy to the Harlem Renaissance Part Two. Dance and the Legacies of Romanticism in American Art 3 Revisiting Arcadia: America's Longing for the Natural, the Pagan, and the Passionate 4 Romantic Imports: American Art's Love Affair with European Dance 5 The Ballets Russes and the \u0022Exotic\u0022 East: Folklore and Modernist Primitivism Invade American Art Part Three. \u0022The Complete Actual Present\u0022: Dancers and Visual Artists Explore the Immediate Cultural Moment (Expressions of Modernity) 6 Lo\u00efe Fuller, Art Nouveau, and the Technological Present 7 Social Dance: Visual Artists Take the Pulse of Twentieth-Century America 8 American Vernacular: Visual Art and the Dancing Mechanized Body Part Four. Terpsichore Transformed: Dance, the Liberated Body, and America's Artistic Revolutions 9 Class, Vice, and the Revolt against Puritanism 10 Dance, Visual Art, and America's Countercultures Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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