Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780819568427
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2007
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 60 illus. (28 colour plates)
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780819568434
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2007
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 60 illus. (28 colour plates)
Description:
One of the most famous dancers of the early 1900s, Loïe Fuller created an extraordinary sensation in Paris with her manipulations of hundreds of yards of silk, swirling high above her and lit dramatically from below. Her work inspired artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Rodin, and Stéphane Mallarmé, and she embodied many of the decorative themes of Art Nouveau. Because her work highlights important issues in dance such as the role of technology in defining a dancing signature, the emergence of a modern movement sensibility, and the role of popular entertainment in early modern dance, Fuller is a critical figure through whom to study the changing representations of women dancers in the early twentieth century.