Merce Cunningham The Modernizing of Modern Dance 1st Edition by Roger Copeland 0415965756 9780415965750
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ISBN 10: 0415965756
ISBN 13: 9780415965750
Author: Roger Copeland
Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance is a complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographer/dancer. More than just a biography, Copeland explores Cunningham’s life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments in American art. Copeland traces his own experience of Cunningham’s dances-from the turbulent late ’60s through the experimental works of the ’80s and ’90s-showing how Cunningham moved dance away from the highly emotional, subjective work of Martha Graham to a return to a new kind of classicism. This book places Cunningham in the forefront of an artistic revolution, a revolution that has its parallels in music (John Cage, and the minimalist composers who followed him), painting (Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg), theater (the happenings of the ’60s), and dance itself (the Judson School of dancers). An iconclastic and highly readable analysis, this book will be enjoyed by all those interested in the development of the American arts in the 20th century.
Table of contents:
1 From Graham to Cunningham
2 Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man
3 Beyond the Ethos of Abstract Expressionism
4 The Limitations of Instinct
5 Contemporary Classicism:
6 Primitive Mysteries
7 The Sound of Perceptual Freedom
8 Cunningham, Cage, and Collage
9 Dancing for the Digital Age
10 Rethinking the Thinking Body
11 Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cunningham
12 Fatal Abstraction: Merce Cunningham in the Age of Identity Politics
13 Dancing in the Aftermath of 9/11
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