Art Without Boundaries: The World of Modern Dance [Paperback]

Jack Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1999

Out of his long history as dance critic for the New York Times, Jack Anderson gives us this important, comprehensive history of one of the liveliest and most unpredictable of the arts. Treating modern dance as a self-renewing art, Anderson follows its changes over the decades and discusses the visionary choreographers who have devised new modes of movement. Art without Boundaries is a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 1998.

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Subtitled The World of Modern Dance, Jack Anderson's Art Without Boundaries traces the century-long history of modern dance, and argues that such dance owes its vitality to its embrace of cultural inflows. As you'd expect, based on his writing in the New York Times and Dancing Times, Anderson gives the impression of having been everywhere and seen everything. Even such seminal artists as Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis benefit from the fresh angle, showing how African and even Asian influences changed their thinking. Though Anderson seems much less fascinated with the personalities of the 1990s than those of the 1920s and 1930s, the later years give him a chance to explore the global cross-pollination that led to Japanese Butoh and corresponding movements in Africa, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, China, Spain, Australia, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere. Art Without Boundaries leaves you on the edge of what promises to be a fascinating new century of dance. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

In his newest book, New York Times dance critic Anderson chronicles the diversity of this art form as performed throughout the world since the 19th century. The presentation is historical, so dancers and choreographers reappear in various parts of the book as the story of this art unfolds. Anderson does not attempt to define modern dance, instead reveling in its vitality as he embraces a multiplicity of expressive dance in both solo and group efforts. Anderson has rediscovered many visionary dancers who explored new modes of movement and who contributed to the development of modern dance, though their sphere of influence may have been narrow. Some of the dancers featured are well known?including such luminaries as Mary Wigman, Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham?but at least an equal number will be new to most readers. Anderson's account is well researched, but above all, it is lively and entertaining reading that will appeal to all dance enthusiasts.?Joan Stahl, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877456771
• ISBN-13: 978-0877456773
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,375,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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