Eva Palmer Sikelianos : A Life in Ruins /
Leontis, Artemis
Eva Palmer Sikelianos : A Life in Ruins / Artemis Leontis. - 1 online resource (392 p.) : 57 b/w illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronology -- CHAPTER 1. Sapphic Performances -- CHAPTER 2. Weaving -- CHAPTER 3. Patron of Byzantine Music -- CHAPTER 4. Drama -- CHAPTER 5. Writing -- EPILOGUE. Recollecting a Life -- Appendix: Cast of Characters -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer’s most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn.Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death.Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as “the only ancient Greek I ever knew.”
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691187907
10.1515/9780691187907 doi
Dance--History--Greece--20th century.
Dancers--United States--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Aestheticism. Alice Pike Barney. Americans. Anachronism. Ancient Greece. Angelos Sikelianos. Archaeology. Autobiography. Bayreuth. Benaki Museum. Bryn Mawr College. Byzantine music. Classicism. Classics. Clothing. Colette. Costume. Culture of Greece. Curator. Dithyramb. Edith Hamilton. Federal Theatre Project. French fashion. Greek art. Greek chorus. Greek dress. Greek mythology. Greek tragedy. Greeks. Isadora Duncan. Jews. Kostis Palamas. Lecture. Lesbian. Literature. Miss Porter's School. Modern Greek. Modernity. Mount Parnassus. Mrs. Music Is. Mycenae. Natalie Clifford Barney. Newspaper. Open letter. Orientalism. Philosopher. Playwright. Poetry. Politician. Prometheus Bound. Provincetown Players. Publication. Raymond Duncan. Residence. Sarah Bernhardt. Seminar. Singing. Smith College. Sophocles. Superiority (short story). Susan Glaspell. Ted Shawn. The Persians. The Suppliants (Aeschylus). Theatre of ancient Greece. To Life. Tunic. Two Women. Writing.
GV1785.S5543
792.8/028/092
Eva Palmer Sikelianos : A Life in Ruins / Artemis Leontis. - 1 online resource (392 p.) : 57 b/w illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronology -- CHAPTER 1. Sapphic Performances -- CHAPTER 2. Weaving -- CHAPTER 3. Patron of Byzantine Music -- CHAPTER 4. Drama -- CHAPTER 5. Writing -- EPILOGUE. Recollecting a Life -- Appendix: Cast of Characters -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer’s most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn.Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death.Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as “the only ancient Greek I ever knew.”
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691187907
10.1515/9780691187907 doi
Dance--History--Greece--20th century.
Dancers--United States--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Aestheticism. Alice Pike Barney. Americans. Anachronism. Ancient Greece. Angelos Sikelianos. Archaeology. Autobiography. Bayreuth. Benaki Museum. Bryn Mawr College. Byzantine music. Classicism. Classics. Clothing. Colette. Costume. Culture of Greece. Curator. Dithyramb. Edith Hamilton. Federal Theatre Project. French fashion. Greek art. Greek chorus. Greek dress. Greek mythology. Greek tragedy. Greeks. Isadora Duncan. Jews. Kostis Palamas. Lecture. Lesbian. Literature. Miss Porter's School. Modern Greek. Modernity. Mount Parnassus. Mrs. Music Is. Mycenae. Natalie Clifford Barney. Newspaper. Open letter. Orientalism. Philosopher. Playwright. Poetry. Politician. Prometheus Bound. Provincetown Players. Publication. Raymond Duncan. Residence. Sarah Bernhardt. Seminar. Singing. Smith College. Sophocles. Superiority (short story). Susan Glaspell. Ted Shawn. The Persians. The Suppliants (Aeschylus). Theatre of ancient Greece. To Life. Tunic. Two Women. Writing.
GV1785.S5543
792.8/028/092