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PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-100299288005
ISBN-139780299288006
eBay Product ID (ePID)111404385
Product Key Features
Number of Pages456 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDance and American Art : a Long Embrace
Publication Year2012
SubjectPopular Culture, American / General, Dance / General, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Performing Arts, Social Science
AuthorSharyn R. Udall
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight42.3 Oz
Item Length10.2 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-042650
Reviews"Dance and American Art is a visual and intellectual delight: a lavishly illustrated and eloquently written overview that traces the longstanding fascination America's artists have had with dance from the nation's beginnings to the present day. From pictures of Shaker religious practices, minstrelsy, and folk dancing, to paintings, sculptures, and photographs of modern performance arts, this far-reaching study admirably positions dance in America's visual landscape and simultaneously accounts for its meaning on social, cultural, and political terms. Highly recommended."--Erika Doss, author of Twentieth-Century American Art, "By exploring the continual dialogue between art and dance, Udall not only probes dance's own cultural meanings, she also casts new light on visual artists' persistent reliance on dance to invent new forms, revitalize technique and style, and better understand the human body and movement."--Andrea Harris, editor of Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing, "Dance and American Art is a visual and intellectual delight: a lavishly illustrated and eloquently written overview that traces the longstanding fascination America's artists have had with dance from the nation's beginnings to the present day. From pictures of Shaker religious practices, minstrelsy, and folk dancing, to paintings, sculptures, and photographs of modern performance arts, this far-reaching study admirably positions dance in America's visual landscape and simultaneously accounts for its meaning on social, cultural, and political terms. Highly recommended."--Erika Doss, author of Twentieth-Century American Art, "Dance and American Art is a visual and intellectual delight: a lavishly illustrated and eloquently written overview that traces the longstanding fascination America's artists have had with dance from the nation's beginnings to the present day. From pictures of Shaker religious practices, minstrelsy, and folk dancing, to paintings, sculptures, and photographs of modern performance arts, this far-reaching study admirably positions dance in America's visual landscape and simultaneously accounts for its meaning on social, cultural, and political terms. Highly recommended."-Erika Doss, author of Twentieth-Century American Art, "By exploring the continual dialogue between art and dance, Udall not only probes dance's own cultural meanings, she also casts new light on visual artists' persistent reliance on dance to invent new forms, revitalize technique and style, and better understand the human body and movement."-Andrea Harris, editor of Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal704.9/4979280973
Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Part One. Art, Dance, and American Consciousness 1 Expressing the Real or Imagined Heritage of a Nation 2 African American Dance and Art: A Confluence of Traditions from Minstrelsy to the Harlem Renaissance Part Two. Dance and the Legacies of Romanticism in American Art 3 Revisiting Arcadia: America's Longing for the Natural, the Pagan, and the Passionate 4 Romantic Imports: American Art's Love Affair with European Dance 5 The Ballets Russes and the "Exotic" East: Folklore and Modernist Primitivism Invade American Art Part Three. "The Complete Actual Present": Dancers and Visual Artists Explore the Immediate Cultural Moment (Expressions of Modernity) 6 Loïe Fuller, Art Nouveau, and the Technological Present 7 Social Dance: Visual Artists Take the Pulse of Twentieth-Century America 8 American Vernacular: Visual Art and the Dancing Mechanized Body Part Four. Terpsichore Transformed: Dance, the Liberated Body, and America's Artistic Revolutions 9 Class, Vice, and the Revolt against Puritanism 10 Dance, Visual Art, and America's Countercultures Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisFrom ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Mississippi riverboats, or in the streets. Dance and American Art is an innovative look at the elusive, evocative nature of dance and the American visual artists who captured it through their paintings, sculpture, photography, and prints from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The scores of artists discussed include many icons of American art: Winslow Homer, George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Edward Steichen, David Smith, and others. As a subject for visual artists, dance has given new meaning to America's perennial myths, cherished identities, and most powerful dreams. Their portrayals of dance and dancers, from the anonymous to the famous--Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, Josephine Baker, Martha Graham--have testified to the enduring importance of spatial organization, physical pattern, and rhythmic motion in creating aesthetic form. Through extensive research, sparkling prose, and beautiful color reproductions, art historian Sharyn R. Udall draws attention to the ways that artists' portrayals of dance have defined the visual character of the modern world and have embodied culturally specific ideas about order and meaning, about the human body, and about the diverse fusions that comprise American culture.
LC Classification NumberN8217.D3U33 2012
