Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Oxford studies in dance theory |
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Oxford studies in dance theory.
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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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on March 27, 2020) |
Subject |
Modern dance -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Choreography -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Gesture in dance
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Choreography.
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Gesture in dance.
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Modern dance.
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Europe.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2018053236 |
ISBN |
9780190659400 |
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0190659408 |
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9780190659417 |
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0190659416 |
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9780190659394 |
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0190659394 |
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