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Imaging dance : visual representations of dancers and dancing

Title
Imaging dance : visual representations of dancers and dancing / edited by Barbara Sparti and Judy Van Zile ; with Elsie Ivancich Dunin, Nancy G. Heller, Adrienne L. Kaeppler.
Publication
Hildesheim ; New York : Georg Olms Verlag, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Sparti, Barbara.
  • Van Zile, Judy.
  • Dunin, Elsie Ivancich.
  • Heller, Nancy.
  • Kaeppler, Adrienne L., 1935-2022
Description
xv, 312 pages, 39 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
What do artists who choose dance as their subject tell us-or not tell us-about dancers and dancing? Spanning the globe from eastern and western Europe to Turkey, Korea, Polynesia, and the United States, Imaging Dance brings together the work of thirteen dance and art scholars who interpret images of dance and dancing. The images date from the sixth century AD to the present, and include paintings, drawings, lithographs, etchings, wood-block prints, stone carvings, and photographs. Each chapter enhances appreciation of artistic renderings and contributes to understanding how people see and envision what they see. Through these engaging and richly illustrated accounts, scholars, students, and general readers will find information about contexts and settings in which dance occurs, socio-cultural attitudes towards dance and dancing, artistic techniques and conventions, religious and political philosophies, rituals, repertoire, and details of movement.
Subject
  • Dance in art
  • Dancers in art
  • Art and Design
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I Artists' conceptions of dance and movement -- When is a circle dance simply a circle of dancers? Matisse and the Sardana / Nancy G. Heller -- Do artists' renderings reveal or conceal? Images of dance in Korea / Judy Van Zile -- Part II Images of dance as historical records -- In search of continuity : tombstones and dance in the Dubrovnik area / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- Performance, iconography, and narrative in Ottoman imperial festivals / Arzu Öztürkmen -- The hands and arms tell the story : movement through time in eighteenth-century dance depictions from Polynesia / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Self-portraits : John Durang on stage in early Philadelphia / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- In the dance classroom with Edgar Degas : historical perspectives on ballet technique / Sandra Noll Hammond -- Part III Politics, class, and society in images of dance -- Chastisement and celebration : dance in papal Bologna in the etchings of G.M. Mitelli (1634-1718) / Barbara Sparti -- Picturing Hungarian patriotism : the Bikkessy album / László Felföldi -- The dance of Zalongos : an invented tradition on canvas / Irene Loutzaki -- George Luks and "tough dancing" on New York's lower east side / Ellery Foutch -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : dance images and dance in early twentieth-century Germany / Shelley Wood Cordulack -- Part IV Motion in stillness -- Still moving : the revelation or representation of dance in still photography / Matthew Reason.
ISBN
  • 9783487145495
  • 3487145499
LCCN
2011468381
OCLC
  • ocn719415526
  • 719415526
  • SCSB-1598484
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library