Modernism's Mythic Pose
Gender, Genre, Solo Performance
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:15th Sep '11
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Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.
Clearly written and carefully researched, this study systematically analyzes the semiotics of gesture. Recommended. * CHOICE *
- Winner of Winner of Society of Dance History de la Torre Bueno Prize.
ISBN: 9780199766260
Dimensions: 170mm x 241mm x 36mm
Weight: 672g
384 pages