Game for Dancers Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960

Name: Game for Dancers Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960
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ISBN: 9780819568052

ISBN-10: 0819568058

ISBN-13: 9780819568052

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gay Morris

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A Game for Dancers examines the difficulties American modern dancers faced as the Cold War took hold and the genre became institutionalized after its pioneering phase. It draws on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to explore the interconnections between art and politics while paying close attention to modern dance's ambivalent relationship to the market. At the heart of the book is an inquiry into modernism itself, and how dancers struggled with modernist ideas of abstraction and autonomy while rarely questioning them. Crucial, too, is the issue of embodiment, which appeared to answer modernist skepticism of representation and aid modern dance's elusive pursuit of independence. Subjects…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Gay Morris is a dance and art critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including Dance Research, Art in America, and Body and Society. Currently she is a research fellow in sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the editor of the anthology, Moving Words, Rewriting Dance (1996).



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Trouble with Modern Dance



Ballet's Challenge



Modernist Theory: John Martin, Edwin Denby, John Cage



Embodying Community



African-American Vanguardism: 1940s



African-American Vanguardism: 1950s



Objectivism's Consonance


Notes


References


Index