Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes / Gabriele Brandstetter ; t...
Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes / Gabriele Brandstetter ; t...
Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes / Gabriele Brandstetter ; translation from the German by Elena Polzer.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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G 2016/1991
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English
German
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Physical content
xvii, 432 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
pt. I Pathos Formulas: Body-Image and Danced Figuration -- Pathos Formulas: On the Iconography of the Body-Image in Dance -- 1.Dance in the Museum: Body and Memory -- The Break with Tradition and the Collapse of Memory: The Cultural Crisis around 1900. Hofmannsthal's Lord Chandos Letter, Read with B...
Drapery in Motion: Dance Dress and Dance Reform -- Dress Reform and Women's Bodies -- Mode et Modernite -- Drapery in Motion: Fabrics of Dance and Patterns of Textu(r)al Production -- Shawl and Veil -- Draped Folds: The Veils and Dance Gowns of Mariano Fortuny -- Marcel Proust: The Prisoner -- Gabri...
Rilke's "Spanish Dancer" -- Valery's Dance and the Soul -- 4.The Dancer as Muse -- The Pathos Formulas of Paul Valery's Inspiratrice -- In the Laboratory of Signs: Biomechanics and Poetics of Dance in the Writings of Paul Valery -- Muse---Medusa: Dance as a Medium of Metamorphosis -- Pathos of Repos...
Gesamtkunstwerk or Multicentric Production -- Ciphers of Dance -- 3.Aerodance: Futurist Dance and Aviation -- The Aesthetics of Futurist Dance -- Futurist Dance as Pantomime of Flight: Marinetti's Dance of the Aviatrix -- Aerodanza -- "Mots en liberte aeriens": Flight and Writing -- Ellipse and Spir...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
This text is the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical and movement productions of the early twentieth-century. The author established in this book not only a relation between dance and critical theory,...
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Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes / Gabriele Brandstetter ; translation from the German by Elena Polzer.
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Body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes.
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Oxford studies in dance theory
Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-419)and index.
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Translation from the German.
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G 2016/1991
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74VKzb7x75bg
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ISBN
9780199916573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780199916559 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
792.801
MMS ID
991023564479702626
