Merce Cunningham : the modernizing of modern dance / / Roger Copeland

• Autore: Copeland Roger
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.8/2/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Dancers - United States; Choreographers - United States; Modern dance - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Merce Cunningham
• ISBN: 1-135-88908-2; 1-135-88909-0; 1-280-22527-0; 0-203-64198-1; 9786610225279
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777428003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II