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008			961202s1997 iaua b s001 0 eng
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020			_a087745583X (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a9780877455837 (cloth : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC-M)36038022
035			_a(OCoLC-I)275212664
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050	0	0	_aGV1783 _b.A53 1997
082	0	0	_221 _a792.809 _bAND
100	1		_aAnderson, Jack _d1935- _eauthor
245	1	0	_aArt without boundaries : _bthe world of modern dance / _cby Jack Anderson.
260			_aIowa City : _bUniversity of Iowa Press, _c©1997.
300			_axiii, 346 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [319]-332) and index.
505			_tPART 1 From the beginnings to World War I : _tIndelible ephemeral -- _tSetting the stage -- _tO pioneers! -- _tIsadora Duncan, hellenism, and beauty -- _tRuth St. Denis and the exotic -- _tDancing into the future -- _tPART 2 From World War I to the Great Depression : _tNew times, new arts -- _tForm, feeling, pattern, passion -- _tFamily trees and hardy growths -- _tDenishawn -- _tAmerican ferment -- _tRebels -- _tPART 3 From the Depression to World War II : _tStruggles, dispersals, amalgamations -- _tCatastrophe -- _tModern dance: an american art -- _tCrosscurrents -- _tAmerican moderns -- _tChoreographic consciences -- _tPART 4 From World War II to the 1960s : _tAmerican victories -- _tExplorers and dissenters -- _tIconoclasts -- _tFertile ground, barren soil -- _tPART 5 Since the 1960s : _tStability and change -- _tContemporary British dance -- _tA league of dancing nations -- _tConclusion: The undefinable redefining art.
520			_a"International in scope and heterogeneous in aesthetics, modern dance reaches across all boundaries, defying or redefining the conventions and time periods of countries where it has flourished. Out of his long experience as dance critic for the New York Times and Dancing Times of London, Jack Anderson gives us this important, comprehensive history of one of the liveliest and most unpredictable of the arts, illustrated with thirty-six images of dancers, dances and choreographers. Treating modern dance as a self-renewing art, Anderson follows its changes over the decades and discusses the visionary choreographers (some of whose lives are as colourful and tumultuous as their creations) who have devised new modes of movement. 'Art without Boundaries' begins with an analysis of the rich mixture of American and European influences at the end of the nineteenth century that prompted dancers to react against established norms. Anderson show how reformist social and educational ideas as well as the impact of the arts of Asia and ancient Greece led such pioneers as Loïe Fuller, Maud Allan, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis to forge deeply personal views. Anderson discusses the increasingly bold approaches of choreographers and dancers after World War I, how the politically troubled thirties gave rise to social protest in America, and how the menace of racism was reflected in the work of European practitioners. Following World War II many European nations turned to ballet, whereas American ,modern dance prepared under inventive new choreographers like José Limón, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and Alwin Nikolais. The book concludes with an authoritative view of how modern dance thrives once again on a worldwide basis." -- Book Jacket
650		0	_aModern dance _xHistory
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