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Merce Cunningham The Modernizing of Modern Dance

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ISBN-10: 0415965756

ISBN-13: 9780415965750

Edition: 2004

Authors: Roger Copeland

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A complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographer/dancer. More than just a biography, the author explores Merce Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments in American art.
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Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
from Graham to Cunningham: An Unsentimental Education
Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man
Beyond the Ethos of Abstract Expressionism
The Limitations of Instinct
Contemporary Classicism: Re-Discovering Ballet
Primitive Mysteries
The Sound of Perceptual Freedom
Cunningham, Cage, and Collage
Dancing for the Digital Age
Re-Thinking the Thinking Body: The Gaze of Upright Posture
Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Cunningham
Fatal Abstraction: Merce Cunningham and The Politics of Perception
Dancing in the Aftermath of 9/11
Index