Dance : American art, 1830-1960 / edited by Jane Dini ; with essays by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Lynn Garafola, Dakin Hart, Constance Valis Hill, Analisa Leppanen-Guerra, Valerie J. Mercer, Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Kenneth John Myers, Bruce Robertson, and Sharyn R. Udall.
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| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Detroit Institute of Arts,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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Contents:
- Invitation to the dance / Jane Dini
- In the eye of the beholder: the black presence in the art of American dance / Constance Valis Hill
- Dance and the performance of self in America: 1810 to 1850 / Kenneth John Meyers
- The art of Native American dance / Jacqueline Shea Murphy
- The art of dancing out-of-doors / Jane Dini
- American modernism and dance: Arthur B. Davies's Dances, 1915 / Bruce Robertson
- Anna Pavolva in America: performance, popular culture, and the commodification of desire / Sharyn R. Udall
- The dancer as muse / Jane Dini
- Visualizing dance of the Harlem Renaissance / Thomas F. Defrantz
- The vicissitudes of African American artists' depictions of dance between 1800 and 1960 / Valerie J. Mercer
- H.P.: a lost dance of the Americas / Lynn Garafola
- Modern shenanigans at a filling station designed by Paul Cadmus / Jane Dini
- Immortal dancers: Joseph Cornell's pacifism during the Second World War / Analisa Leppanen-Guerra
- Isamu Noguchi and Ruth Page in an expanding universe / Dakin Hart.