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Dance : American art, 1830-1960
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- edited by Jane Dini ; with essays by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Lynn Garafola, Dakin Hart, Constance Valis Hill, Analisa Leppanen-Guerra, Valerie J. Mercer, Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Kenneth John Myers, Bruce Robertson, and Sharyn R. Udall
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- English
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- Detroit : Detroit Institute of Arts, [2016]
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780895581730, 0895581736, 9780300211610, 0300211619
- OCLC
- ocn913572949
- "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Dance: American Art, 1830-1960, Detroit Institute of Arts, March 20-June 12, 2016; Denver Art Museum, July 10-October 2, 2016; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK, October 22, 2016-January 16, 2017"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index.
- Invitation to the dance / Jane Dini -- In the eye of the beholder: the black presence in the art of American dance / Constance Valis Hill -- Dance and the performance of self in America: 1810 to 1850 / Kenneth John Meyers -- The art of Native American dance / Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- The art of dancing out-of-doors / Jane Dini -- American modernism and dance: Arthur B. Davies's Dances, 1915 / Bruce Robertson -- Anna Pavolva in America: performance, popular culture, and the commodification of desire / Sharyn R. Udall -- The dancer as muse / Jane Dini -- Visualizing dance of the Harlem Renaissance / Thomas F. Defrantz -- The vicissitudes of African American artists' depictions of dance between 1800 and 1960 / Valerie J. Mercer -- H.P.: a lost dance of the Americas / Lynn Garafola -- Modern shenanigans at a filling station designed by Paul Cadmus / Jane Dini -- Immortal dancers: Joseph Cornell's pacifism during the Second World War / Analisa Leppanen-Guerra -- Isamu Noguchi and Ruth Page in an expanding universe / Dakin Hart