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My Life (Revised and Updated)
Isadora Duncan
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Description for My Life (Revised and Updated)
paperback. A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: ASD; BGFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 334.
The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake. While many biographies have explored Duncan’s crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as critical—as both historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting life—as her autobiography. From her early enchantment with classical music and poetry to her great successes abroad, to her sensational love affairs and headline-grabbing personal tragedies, Duncan’s story is a dramatic one. My Life still stands alone as “a ... Read more
The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake. While many biographies have explored Duncan’s crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as critical—as both historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting life—as her autobiography. From her early enchantment with classical music and poetry to her great successes abroad, to her sensational love affairs and headline-grabbing personal tragedies, Duncan’s story is a dramatic one. My Life still stands alone as “a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liveright
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871403186
SKU
9780871403186
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About Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan was one of the primary founders of modern dance. Born in California, she lived throughout Europe from the age of twenty-two until her death at fifty Joan Acocella, author of Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, is the dance critic for The New Yorker.
Reviews for My Life (Revised and Updated)
"Fascinating, even sensational reading."
New York Times "Isadora was a wild voluptuary, a true revolutionary. She flouted every tradition. . . . She alone and unhelped changed the direction of her entire art."
Agnes de Mille "For dance aficionados, Isadora Duncan's memoir My Life, with an introduction by Joan Acocella, completes the portrait of one of the twentieth ... Read more
New York Times "Isadora was a wild voluptuary, a true revolutionary. She flouted every tradition. . . . She alone and unhelped changed the direction of her entire art."
Agnes de Mille "For dance aficionados, Isadora Duncan's memoir My Life, with an introduction by Joan Acocella, completes the portrait of one of the twentieth ... Read more