The Fugitive Gesture

Author : William A. Ewing
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500278062
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fugitive Gesture written by William A. Ewing and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to a major photographic genre's success in capturing in permanent form the most ephemeral of the arts. Over 200 reproduced duotone plates reveal dance in all its aspects - from many countries and periods, from classical ballet to rock and roll - photographed wherever dancers waltz, tango, tap-dance, pirouette, stomp, jive or kick up their heels for joy. The great dancers are here - Nijinsky, Fred Astaire, Pavlova, Fonteyn and Isadora Duncan among other immortals; but so too are the anonymous, captured in a Parisian nightclub or at the Roxy, New York, an Amsterdam street cafe or simply dancing alone by the seashore. The wide range of photographers include Gordon Anthony, Barbara Morgan, Beaton, Degas, Genthe, Steichen, Horst, Man Ray and Helmut Newton. Introductions to each chapter and detailed notes on the photographs provide essential background about the dancers and photographers.

Author : William A. Ewing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fugitive Gesture written by William A. Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erin Manning
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374412
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minor Gesture written by Erin Manning and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor gesture's power to fashion relations, its capacity to open new modes of experience and manners of expression, is to challenge the ways in which the neurotypical image of the human devalues alternative ways of being moved by and moving through the world—in particular what Manning terms "autistic perception." Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis and Whitehead's speculative pragmatism, Manning's far-reaching analyses range from fashion to depression to the writings of autistics, in each case affirming the neurodiversity of the minor and the alternative politics it gestures toward.

Author : Lisa Schlansker Kolosek
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467451
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame written by Lisa Schlansker Kolosek and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich history, collections, and significance of the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to the art form of dance. The only museum in the United States dedicated entirely to the art form of dance, the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame opened in June 1987, after a short preview season the summer before. This unique and special place celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2017. To commemorate this milestone, Lisa Schlansker Kolosek has created a rich pictorial history tracing not only the museum’s remarkable evolution but the relevance of the museum to the city of Saratoga Springs, New York. Kolosek tells the story of the museum’s origins, from its notable founders’ grand idea to the selection and complete renovation of a historic 1920s bath house as its home. Combining a complete survey of exhibitions presented by the museum and the incredible history of the Hall of Fame, which recognizes dance luminaries across multiple genres, this book offers an in-depth look at the museum’s expansive collection of costumes, visual art, and archival materials. The book also covers the history of the museum’s Lewis A. Swyer Studios and School of the Arts, a leader in dance education. Beautifully illustrated with more than four hundred photographs, this book pays tribute to the immense impact of the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame. “The book illuminates the history of the museum and its founders’ vision for a national repository dedicated to the ethereal art of dance in all its many genres. Readers will grasp the importance of the museum on the Saratoga Springs region along with its impact on the greater dance world both past and present. A lovely journey for all to read, especially the dance aficionado!” — Andrew DeVries, sculptor “Saratoga Springs is a mythical place for dance: Mr. Balanchine parading down the streets with the New York City Ballet performing street theater, tantalizing Saratoga with glimpses of ballets in a freewheeling, improvisational summer parade. And from there it blossomed: the National Museum of Dance was born, giving us the past through exhibitions, providing space for the creative process today, and training the next generation. Dance, the architecture of time, is celebrated by a colorful cast of characters making time flow in tantalizing stories of a one-of-a-kind place.” — Karole Armitage, choreographer “It has been a privilege and a pleasure to walk through and explore the National Museum of Dance. This museum is always ‘in process,’ reinventing itself in an ever-changing world. Museums are the guardians of our culture, keeping the ideas and creations of the human spirit—body and soul—alive. The National Museum of Dance delights in bringing art and history into the present—into the dance of now!” — Paul Kolnik, photographer

Author : Johann Jacob Engel
Publisher : London : Sherwood, Neely & Jones
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action written by Johann Jacob Engel and published by London : Sherwood, Neely & Jones. This book was released on 1822 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rocio G Davis
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592133665
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Gestures written by Rocio G Davis and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Form as function in Asian American literature.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9463000763
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Educational Research written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Educational Research explores a variety of important issues and methods in educational research. Contributors include some of the most important voices in educational research. In the handbook these scholars provide detailed insights into one dimension of the research process that engages both students as well as experienced researchers with key concepts and recent innovations in the domain.

Author : Nigel Bradley
Publisher : Nigel Bradley
ISBN 13 : 9780951320785
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphodigest 2000 written by Nigel Bradley and published by Nigel Bradley. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the world looks like to your dog? Or what it smells and sounds like? Do dogs have crushes or love affairs? Do they dream, and what about? This book is the result of 30 years of living with dogs, wolves and dingoes. The author visits their minds and provides an insight into a species different from our own, but in many respects surprisingly the same.

Author : Michael Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150131582X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gestures of Testimony written by Michael Richardson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for literature: torturous pain and its traumatic aftermath have long been held to destroy language, shatter experience, and refuse representation. Challenging accepted thinking, Gestures of Testimony asks how literature might bear witness to the tortures of a war waged against fear itself. Bringing the vibrant field of affect theory to bear on theories of torture and power, Richardson adopts an interdisciplinary approach to show how testimony founded in affect can bear witness to torture and its traumas. Grounded in provocative readings of poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of interrogators and detainees, contemporary films, the Bush Administration's Torture Memos, and fiction by George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels, and Janette Turner Hospital, Michael Richardson traces the workings of affect, biopower, and aesthetics to re-think literary testimony. Gestures of Testimony gives shape to a mode of affective witnessing, a reaching beyond the page in the writing of torture that reveals violent trauma - even as it embodies its veiling.

Author : Walter Hines Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.