Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes /
'Poetics of Dance' looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics of classical ballet. Author Gabriele Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and trends in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in dance theory.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Poetics of Dance' looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics of classical ballet. Author Gabriele Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and trends in visual and literary arts to argue that modern dance is in fact the preeminent symbol of modernity. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the German. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 432 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 019991656X 9780199916566 9780199370108 0199370109 |