Isadora
Subtitle: a sensational life
By: Peter Kurth
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780316507264; 9780316854351
Subjects: Ballet; Dansers; Tänzerin; Geschichte 1877-1927; Biographie; Dancers; Biography
Description: "Never before has Isadora Duncan's life been so engagingly explored. Biographer Peter Kurth recounts this sensational life filled with lavish love affairs, artistic zeal, marvelous performances, and personal tragedies. Kurth allows the free spirit and idiosyncratic personality of this passionate artist to shine through, revealing her dramatic story set against the sweeping backdrop of Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century.

Kurth tells of Isadora's longtime love affairs; with English designer Gordon Craig, father of her daughter, Deirdre; with sewing-machine heir Paris Singer, father of her son, Patrick; and with Russian poet Sergei Esenin. Also on this tumultuous stage are her many friends and family, including Auguste Rodin, Jean Cocteau, Edward Steichen, Preston Sturges, Mary Desti, Mercedes de Acosta, the six "Isadorables," and the colorful Duncan clan.".

"Drawing from extensive research of major archival sources in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, including several private archives and unpublished manuscripts, Peter Kurth has created a compelling portrait of an intelligent, complicated, conflicted woman.

As the New York Times said of her in 1928: "It is quite certain that no other American woman has so impressed the world outside of America - made such a mighty stir, commanded such a following at home and abroad... left behind her such a legend of personality and such a trail of effects.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-627) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: The happier age of gold : 1877-1904 -- -- 1.; title: A baby Bolshevik -- -- 2.; title: "I dreamed of a different dance" -- -- 3.; title: Flying eastward -- -- 4.; title: London -- -- 5.; title: Paris -- -- 6.; title: Germany -- -- 7.; title: Myth -- -- pt. 2.; title: Twin souls : 1904-1907 -- -- 8.; title: Teddy and Topsy -- -- 9.; title: "Your Isadora" -- -- 10.; title: Their own sweet will -- -- 11.; title: Maternity -- -- 12.; title: Breaking stones -- -- pt. 3.; title: Passion and the storm : 1907-1914 -- -- 13.; title: Pim and pure pleasure -- -- 14.; title: Daughter of Prometheus -- -- 15.; title: To love in a certain way -- -- 16.; title: One great cry -- -- 17.; title: The rock of Niobe -- -- pt. 4.; title: Decrescendo : 1914-1921 -- -- 18.; title: Dionysion 1915 -- -- 19.; title: South America -- -- 20.; title: "I tell you she drives 'em mad" -- -- 21.; title: Sunk in sorrow, tossed in joy -- -- 22.; title: The bad fairy -- -- pt. 5.; title: Russia : 1921-1924 -- -- 23.; title: Comrade Duncan -- -- 24.; title: Wayward child -- -- 25.; title: "How Russian! how Russian!" -- -- 26.; title: Just a wee bit eccentric -- -- 27.; title: Genius and kaputt -- -- pt. 6.; title: "Sans limites : 1924-1927 -- -- 28.; title: Love and ideals -- -- 29.; title: Seraphita -- -- 30.; title: The ride to glory.