Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's performance of modernism
Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fulle...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Princeton, N.J Woodstock, U.K
Princeton University Press
[2009], ©2007
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| In: | Anno: 2007 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Fuller, Loie 1862-1928
/ Danza moderna
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Dancers (United States)
B Dancers United States B Fuller, Loie B Modern dance United States B United States B Modern dance B Fuller, Loie 1862-1928 Fuller, Loie 1862-1928 B Fuller, Loie (1862-1928) B Electronic books B PERFORMING ARTS ; Dance ; Modern B Danza moderna B Dancers |
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| Riepilogo: | Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian. |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Originally published: 2007. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record Originally published: 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | Online Ressource (xiv, 246 pages), illustrations, portraits, facs |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4008-3277-4 1-4008-3277-2 |
