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Autore |
Copeland Roger |
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Titolo |
Merce Cunningham : the modernizing of modern dance / / Roger Copeland |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-88908-2 |
1-135-88909-0 |
1-280-22527-0 |
0-203-64198-1 |
9786610225279 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dancers - United States |
Choreographers - United States |
Modern dance - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Graham to Cunningham; 2. Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man; 3. Beyond The Ethos of Abstract Expressionism; 4. The Limitations of Instinct; 5. Contemporary Classicism; 6. Primitive Mysteries; 7. The Sound of Perceptual Freedom; 8. Cunningham, Cage, and Collage; 9. Dancing for the Digital Age; 10. Rethinking the Thinking Body; 11. Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cunningham; 12. Fatal Abstraction: Merce Cunningham in the Age of Identity Politics; 13. Dancing in the Aftermath of 9/11; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographer/dancer. Iconclastic and highly readable, this book will be enjoyed by all those interested in the development of the American arts in the 20th century. |
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