Gestural imaginaries : dance and cultural theory in the early twentieth century /
Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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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 |
Table of Contents:
- A second gestural revolution and gesturing hands in Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Mary Wigman, and Tilly Losch
- Gestures of vibrating (interruption) in Rudolf von Laban, mary Wigman, and Walter Benjamin
- Conducts and codes of gesture in Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka
- Gestural (in)visibility in Béla Balázs and Helmuth Plessner
- Gestures between symptom and symbol in Aby Warburg and Sigmund Freud
- Gestures between the auratic and the profane : Niddy Impekoven's and Franz Kafka's reenactments of liturgy
- Gestural drag : baroquism and modernist minstrelsy in alexander and clotilde sakharoff
- Floral pathochoreographies : mime studies by Harald Kreutzberg, Alfred Döblin, and Jo Mihaly.