Research Catalog
Shawn
- Title
- Shawn [graphic] / Peter Mann.
- Author
- Malkin, Peter Z.
- Publication
- 1947.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZGB Man P Sha 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- University of Western Australia. asn
- Description
- 1 painting : watercolor, gouache, graphite, col.; 39 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- Poster design? depicting Ted Shawn in his dance work Cosmic dance of Siva. He re-creates the pose of Shiva Nataraja or Shiva, lord of the dance, which is seen in many Hindu portrayals of the god, particularly in bronze statuary. In a circle of flames representing the cycle of transmigration, he dances atop the figure of a dwarf, representing ignorance. Through dancing the tandava, Shiva creates, maintains, and dissolves the world.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Paintings.
- Note
- Signed and dated: Peter Mann, University of W[estern] A[ustralia], 25-6-47.
- Stamped at lower right: [illegible] Guild of Undergraduates. University of Western Australia.
- Text reads: Shawn. Lecture. Dance -- the matrix. 1.30 pm, Wednesday 25th. Arts II.
- Biography (note)
- Ted Shawn played a major role in the development of 20th-century American modern dance not only as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, but as a tireless advocate for the art of the dance, both as a speaker and a writer. This design was made for a lecture he presented at the University of Western Australia in Perth on June 25, 1947, during a tour of Australia.
- Call Number
- *MGZGB Man P Sha 1
- OCLC
- 751453679
- Author
- Malkin, Peter Z.
- Title
- Shawn [graphic] / Peter Mann.
- Imprint
- 1947.
- Biography
- Ted Shawn played a major role in the development of 20th-century American modern dance not only as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, but as a tireless advocate for the art of the dance, both as a speaker and a writer. This design was made for a lecture he presented at the University of Western Australia in Perth on June 25, 1947, during a tour of Australia.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Added Author
- University of Western Australia. Associated name
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGB Man P Sha 1