LEADER 04000nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910496144403321 005 20221107215345.0 010 $a0-520-91827-4 010 $a0-585-29985-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520918276 035 $a(CKB)111004366717434 035 $a(dli)HEB05956 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000146188 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155724 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146188 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10182079 035 $a(PQKB)11362069 035 $a(DE-B1597)570380 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520918276 035 $a(OCoLC)1202625742 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007009184 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30771620 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30771620 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366717434 100 $a19980202d1997 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpire of ecstasy $enudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 /$fKarl Toepfer 205 $aReprint 2020 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 422 p., [48] p. of plates )$cill. ; 225 1 $aWeimar and now ;$v13 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-20663-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 387-409) and index. 327 $tFigure One --$tEarly Nackttanz --$tNacktkultur --$tFeminist Nacktkultur --$tErotic Nacktkultur --$tNacktballett --$tSchools of Bodily Expressivity --$tSolo Dancing --$tPair Dancing --$tGroup Dancing --$tTheatre Dancing --$tMass Dancing --$tMusic and Movement --$tDance Criticism --$tDance as Image --$tEcstasy and Modernity 330 $aEmpire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars?nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents this dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of "modern identity." The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy, as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious "inner" conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy. With the help of much unpublished or long-forgotten archival material (including many little-known photographs), he investigates the process of constructing an "empire" of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy. Toepfer presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with less-known but equally fascinating body culture practitioners. His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism. 410 0$aWeimar and now ;$v13. 606 $aPhysical education and training$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDance$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNudity in dance$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBody image$zGermany 606 $aNudism$zGermany$xSociological aspects$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aRecreation & Sports$2HILCC 615 0$aPhysical education and training$xHistory 615 0$aDance$xHistory 615 0$aNudity in dance$xHistory 615 0$aBody image 615 0$aNudism$xSociological aspects$xHistory 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aRecreation & Sports 676 $a613.7/0943 700 $aToepfer$b Karl Eric$f1948-$01232664 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496144403321 996 $aEmpire of ecstasy$92862125 997 $aUNINA