Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 422 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780520918276
,
0520918274
,
0585299854
,
9780585299853
Serie:
Weimar and now 13
Inhalt:
Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars: nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents this dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of "modern identity," which stimulated often contradictory impulses, desires, and ambitions in participants and enthusiasts. Through the presentation and analysis of unpublished archival material (including many little-known photographs) and the reclamation of forgotten discourses of fashion, gymnastics, nudism, and the visual arts, he investigates the process of constructing an "empire" of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy. Toepfer presents the work of well-known figures such as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as many obscure but equally fascinating practitioners of German body culture. His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-409) and index
,
Figure one -- Early nackttanz -- Nacktkultur -- Feminist nacktkultur -- Erotic nacktkultur -- Nacktballet -- Schools of bodily expressivity -- Solo dancing -- Pair dancing -- Group dancing -- Theatre dancing -- Mass dancing -- Music and movement -- Dance criticism -- Dance as image -- Ecstasy and modernity.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520206630
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520206632
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Toepfer, Karl Eric, 1948- Empire of ecstasy Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 ISBN 0520206630
Sprache:
Englisch
