ISBN: 9780520206632

Détails de l?annonceTitre: Empire of EcstasyCondition: NeufDescription: "Empire of Ecstasy" offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nu… Mehr…

Détails de l?annonceTitre: Empire of EcstasyCondition: NeufDescription: "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.' The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy, as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious 'inner' conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy. With the help of much unpublished or long-forgotten archival material (including many little-known photographs), he investigates the process of constructing an 'empire' of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy. Toepfer presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with less-known but equally fascinating body culture practitioners.His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism.EAN: 9780520206632Format: ReliéAuteur: Karl ToepferISBN-10: 0520206630ISBN: 9780520206632Date de publication: 1997-12-31Item Height: 235Item Length: 156.00Sous titres: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910?1935Genre: Society & CulturePublisher: University of California PressItem Width: 36.00Poids: 816gSujet: AnglaisPays/Région de fabrication: USSérie: Weimar & Now: German Cultural CriticismSujet: Gender Sex & Relationships, Music Dance & TheatreAnnée de publication: 1997 Information manquante?Veuillez nous contacter pour toute information manquante, nous l?ajouterions volontiers dans notre description., von Profianbieter, Nieuw, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Année de publication: 1997, EAN: 9780520206632, Format: Relié, Auteur: Karl Toepfer, ISBN-10: 0520206630, Title: Empire of Ecstasy, Titre: Empire of Ecstasy, Date de publication: 1997-12-31, Item Height: 235, Item Length: 156.00, Sous titres: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910?1935, Genre: Society & Culture, Item Width: 36.00, Poids: 816g, Sujet: Music Dance & Theatre, Pays/Région de fabrication: US, Série: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism, University of California Press<

1997, ISBN: 0520206630

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[EAN: 9780520206632], Nieuw boek, [SC: 6.92], [PU: University of California Press, US], SOCIETY AND CULTURE, "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.' The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy, as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious 'inner' conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy. With the help of much unpublished or long-forgotten archival material (including many little-known photographs), he investigates the process of constructing an 'empire' of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy. Toepfer presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with less-known but equally fascinating body culture practitioners.His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism., Books<