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Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927. A living sculpture.
Exhibition catalog, Bourdelle Museum, Paris, 2009-2010.

Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927. A living sculpture.

Paris Museums.
€95,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25172
Format 22 x 27
Détails 335 pages, numerous color illustrations, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2009
Etat Nine
ISBN
Self-taught and born in California, a pioneer of "free dance," Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) defied convention by placing her art at the heart of a project for a more democratic society. This book, the first devoted to Isadora's years in France, seeks to restore the intellectual and artistic context of an era, and traces the dancer's career, from her beginnings in Parisian salons to success on prestigious stages - Gaîté-Lyrique, Théâtre du Châtelet, and the Champs-Élysées - also evoking the influence of her dance schools, which were crucial in the transmission of her art. Seduced by the expressiveness of her dance, nourished by her fascination with ancient Greece, many artists - Antoine Bourdelle, José Clara, Jules Grandjouan, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Abraham Walkowitz, Rik Wouters... - have sought to capture its vital impulse, through the lightness of the line or the gravity of the material. Others have magnificently represented this bold and modern woman, as evidenced by the painted portrait by Eugène Carrière or the period photographs by Albert Harlingue, Arnold Genthe or Edward Steichen. An exceptional personality, a free woman, Isadora Duncan revolutionized the art of dance: "I did not invent dance, it existed before me; but it was sleeping and I woke it up."
Self-taught and born in California, a pioneer of "free dance," Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) defied convention by placing her art at the heart of a project for a more democratic society. This book, the first devoted to Isadora's years in France, seeks to restore the intellectual and artistic context of an era, and traces the dancer's career, from her beginnings in Parisian salons to success on prestigious stages - Gaîté-Lyrique, Théâtre du Châtelet, and the Champs-Élysées - also evoking the influence of her dance schools, which were crucial in the transmission of her art. Seduced by the expressiveness of her dance, nourished by her fascination with ancient Greece, many artists - Antoine Bourdelle, José Clara, Jules Grandjouan, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Abraham Walkowitz, Rik Wouters... - have sought to capture its vital impulse, through the lightness of the line or the gravity of the material. Others have magnificently represented this bold and modern woman, as evidenced by the painted portrait by Eugène Carrière or the period photographs by Albert Harlingue, Arnold Genthe or Edward Steichen. An exceptional personality, a free woman, Isadora Duncan revolutionized the art of dance: "I did not invent dance, it existed before me; but it was sleeping and I woke it up."