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Marking modern movement : dance and gender in the visual imagery of the Weimar Republic

Title: Marking modern movement : dance and gender in the visual imagery of the Weimar Republic / Susan Funkenstein.
Author: Funkenstein, Susan
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2020]

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Description

ix, 330 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Imagine yourself in Weimar Germany: you are visually inundated with depictions of dance. Perusing a women's magazine, you find photograph after photograph of leggy revue starlets, clad in sequins and feathers, coquettishly smiling at you. When you attend an art exhibition, you encounter Otto Dix's six-foot-tall triptych Metropolis, featuring Charleston dancers in the latest luxurious fashions, or Emil Nolde's watercolors of Mary Wigman, with their luminous blues and purples evoking her choreographies' mystery and expressivity. Invited to the Bauhaus, you participate in the Metallic Festival, and witness the school's transformation into a humorous, shiny, technological total work of art; you costume yourself by strapping a metal plate to your head, admire your reflection in the tin balls hanging from the ceiling, and dance the Bauhaus' signature step in which you vigorously hop and stomp late into the night. Yet behind the razzle dazzle of these depictions and experiences was one far more complex involving issues of gender and the body during a tumultuous period in history, Germany's first democracy (1918-1933). Rather than mere titillation, the images copiously illustrated and analyzed in Marking Modern Movement illuminate how visual artists and dancers befriended one another and collaborated together. In many ways because of these bonds, artists and dancers forged a new path in which images revealed artists' deep understanding of dance, their dynamic engagement with popular culture, and out of that, a possibility of representing women dancers as cultural authorities to be respected. Through six case studies, Marking Modern Movement explores how and why these complex dynamics occurred in ways specific to their historical moment. Extensively illustrated and with color plates, Marking Modern Movement is a clearly written book accessible to general readers and undergraduates. Coming at a time of a growing number of major art museums showcasing large-scale exhibitions on images of dance, the audience exists for a substantial general-public interest in this topic. Conversing across German studies, art history, dance studies, gender studies, and popular culture studies, Marking Modern Movement is intended to engage readers coming from a wide range of perspectives and interests"--

Series Statement

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Uniform Title

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Dance Like It's 1919: Hannah Höch's Not So Liberated Dancers of the Early Weimar Republic -- There's Something About Mary (Wigman): Expressionist Art, Women's Magazines, and the Woman Dancer as Subject -- Kicklines for Feminists: Women's Pleasures in the Weimar Revue -- The Weimar Vogue for Black Dance: Josephine Baker and the Colonial Imaginary -- It Takes Two to Shimmy: Gender and Race in Otto Dix's World of Social Dancing -- Designed to Dance: Gender and the Gesamttanzwerk at the Bauhaus -- Markng (Modern) Movement in the Third Reich.

Call Number

JQE 21-148

ISBN

9780472074617
047207461X
9780472054619
0472054619
9780472127085 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020021847

OCLC

1126795414

Author

Funkenstein, Susan, author.

Title

Marking modern movement : dance and gender in the visual imagery of the Weimar Republic / Susan Funkenstein.

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Funkenstein, Susan. Marking modern movement Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2020] 9780472127085 (DLC) 2020021848

Research Call Number

JQE 21-148

*MGS (German) 21-1460

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