Imaging dance
Subtitle: visual representations of dancers and dancing
By: edited by Barbara Sparti and Judy Van Zile
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hildesheim; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9783487145495
Subjects: Dance in art; Dancers in art
Description: What do artists who choose dance as their subject tell us-or not tell us-about dancers and dancing? Spanning the globe from eastern and western Europe to Turkey, Korea, Polynesia, and the United States, Imaging Dance brings together the work of thirteen dance and art scholars who interpret images of dance and dancing. The images date from the sixth century AD to the present, and include paintings, drawings, lithographs, etchings, wood-block prints, stone carvings, and photographs. Each chapter enhances appreciation of artistic renderings and contributes to understanding how people see and envision what they see. Through these engaging and richly illustrated accounts, scholars, students, and general readers will find information about contexts and settings in which dance occurs, socio-cultural attitudes towards dance and dancing, artistic techniques and conventions, religious and political philosophies, rituals, repertoire, and details of movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I; title: Artists' conceptions of dance and movement --; title: When is a circle dance simply a circle of dancers? Matisse and the Sardana  -- Nancy G. Heller; title: Do artists' renderings reveal or conceal? Images of dance in Korea  -- Judy Van Zile -- Part II; title: Images of dance as historical records --; title: In search of continuity : tombstones and dance in the Dubrovnik area  -- Elsie Ivancich Dunin; title: Performance, iconography, and narrative in Ottoman imperial festivals  -- Arzu Öztürkmen; title: The hands and arms tell the story : movement through time in eighteenth-century dance depictions from Polynesia  -- Adrienne L. Kaeppler; title: Self-portraits : John Durang on stage in early Philadelphia  -- Lynn Matluck Brooks; title: In the dance classroom with Edgar Degas : historical perspectives on ballet technique  -- Sandra Noll Hammond -- Part III; title: Politics, class, and society in images of dance --; title: Chastisement and celebration : dance in papal Bologna in the etchings of G.M. Mitelli (1634-1718)  -- Barbara Sparti; title: Picturing Hungarian patriotism : the Bikkessy album  -- László Felföldi; title: The dance of Zalongos : an invented tradition on canvas  -- Irene Loutzaki; title: George Luks and "tough dancing" on New York's lower east side  -- Ellery Foutch; title: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : dance images and dance in early twentieth-century Germany  -- Shelley Wood Cordulack -- Part IV; title: Motion in stillness --; title: Still moving : the revelation or representation of dance in still photography -- Matthew Reason.