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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: xii, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0415965756
  • 9780415965750
  • 0415965748
  • 9780415965743
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 792.82092 CUN
LOC classification:
  • GV1785.C85 C66 2004
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Contents:
1. From Graham to Cunningham: an unsentimental education -- 2. Portrait of the artist as a Jung man -- 3. Beyond the ethos of abstract expressionism -- 4. The limitations of instinct -- 5. Contemporary Classicism: rediscovering ballet -- 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: the gaze of upright posture -- 11. Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cunningham -- 12. Fatal abstraction: Merce Cunningham in the age of identity politics -- 13. Dancing in the aftermath of 9/11.
Summary: "Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance is the first complete critical overview of Cunningham's entire body of work, extending from his earliest solos through his most recent experiments with digital technology." -- Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.

1. From Graham to Cunningham: an unsentimental education -- 2. Portrait of the artist as a Jung man -- 3. Beyond the ethos of abstract expressionism -- 4. The limitations of instinct -- 5. Contemporary Classicism: rediscovering ballet -- 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: the gaze of upright posture -- 11. Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cunningham -- 12. Fatal abstraction: Merce Cunningham in the age of identity politics -- 13. Dancing in the aftermath of 9/11.

"Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance is the first complete critical overview of Cunningham's entire body of work, extending from his earliest solos through his most recent experiments with digital technology." -- Publisher.

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