Isadora : a sensational life / Peter Kurth.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Abacus, 2003.Description: xi, 752 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780349116198 (pbk)
  • 0349116199 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.8092 DUN
Contents:
PART I The Happier Age of Gold 1877-1904 : 1. A Baby Bolshevik -- 2. "I Dreamed of a Different Dance" -- 3. Flying Eastward -- 4. London -- 5. Paris -- 6. Germany -- 7. Myth -- PART II Twin Souls 1904-1907 : 8. Teddy and Todpsy -- 9. "Your Isadora" -- 10. Their Own Sweet Will -- 11. Maternity -- 12. Breaking Stones -- PART III Passion and the Storm 1907-1914 : 13. Pim and Pure Pleasure -- 14. Daughter of Prometheus -- 15. To Love in a Certain Way -- 16. One Great Cry -- 17. The Rock of Niobe -- PART IV Decrescendo 1914-1921 : 18. Dionysion 1915 -- 19. South America -- 20. "I Tell You She Drives 'Em Mad" -- 21. Sunk in Sorrow, Tossed Joy -- 22. The Bad Fairy -- PART V Russia 1921-1924 23. Comrade Duncan -- 24. Wayward Child -- 25. "How Russian! How Russian" -- 26. Just aWee Bit Eccentric -- 27. Genius and Kaputt -- PART VI "Sans Limites" 1924-1927 : 28. Love and Ideals -- 29. Seraphita -- 30. The Ride to Glory.
Summary: "Known by any as the greatest dancer of her time, perhaps of all time, Isadora Duncan was the matriarch and patron saint of creative self-expression. She invented her own physical language to express the spirit and worldwide hope of American democracy. A pioneer in the dance world and the women's movement, her name is synonymous with originality, spontaneity and intrigue. 'Art meant Isadora,' said Joan Dos Passos in The Big Money. 'Art was whatever Isadora did.' Her dramatic death in 1927 - she was strangled by her scarf during a joy-ride on the French Riveria - was a dramatically fitting end to a remarkable life. Finally, here is a biography that does justice to the woman whom Dorothy Parker praised as 'magnificent, generous, gallant and fated' - and christened 'Duncan Cisorderly'. Never before has the life of Isadora Duncan been given such thorough and sweeping treatment. Isadora uncovers the mystery behind this passionate artist and tells the most accurate account of her magnificent life yet." -- Book Cover
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First published: Boston, Mass : Little, Brown, 2001 ; London : Little, Brown, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I The Happier Age of Gold 1877-1904 : 1. A Baby Bolshevik -- 2. "I Dreamed of a Different Dance" -- 3. Flying Eastward -- 4. London -- 5. Paris -- 6. Germany -- 7. Myth -- PART II Twin Souls 1904-1907 : 8. Teddy and Todpsy -- 9. "Your Isadora" -- 10. Their Own Sweet Will -- 11. Maternity -- 12. Breaking Stones -- PART III Passion and the Storm 1907-1914 : 13. Pim and Pure Pleasure -- 14. Daughter of Prometheus -- 15. To Love in a Certain Way -- 16. One Great Cry -- 17. The Rock of Niobe -- PART IV Decrescendo 1914-1921 : 18. Dionysion 1915 -- 19. South America -- 20. "I Tell You She Drives 'Em Mad" -- 21. Sunk in Sorrow, Tossed Joy -- 22. The Bad Fairy -- PART V Russia 1921-1924 23. Comrade Duncan -- 24. Wayward Child -- 25. "How Russian! How Russian" -- 26. Just aWee Bit Eccentric -- 27. Genius and Kaputt -- PART VI "Sans Limites" 1924-1927 : 28. Love and Ideals -- 29. Seraphita -- 30. The Ride to Glory.

"Known by any as the greatest dancer of her time, perhaps of all time, Isadora Duncan was the matriarch and patron saint of creative self-expression. She invented her own physical language to express the spirit and worldwide hope of American democracy. A pioneer in the dance world and the women's movement, her name is synonymous with originality, spontaneity and intrigue. 'Art meant Isadora,' said Joan Dos Passos in The Big Money. 'Art was whatever Isadora did.' Her dramatic death in 1927 - she was strangled by her scarf during a joy-ride on the French Riveria - was a dramatically fitting end to a remarkable life.
Finally, here is a biography that does justice to the woman whom Dorothy Parker praised as 'magnificent, generous, gallant and fated' - and christened 'Duncan Cisorderly'. Never before has the life of Isadora Duncan been given such thorough and sweeping treatment. Isadora uncovers the mystery behind this passionate artist and tells the most accurate account of her magnificent life yet." -- Book Cover

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