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Electric Salome : Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism / Rhonda K. Garelick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 44 halftones. 2 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691017082
  • 9781400832774
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.8028092 22
LOC classification:
  • GV1785.F8 G37 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Evolution of Fuller's Performance Aesthetic -- Chapter Two Electric Salome: Loie Fuller at the World's Fair of 1900 -- Chapter Three Fuller and the Romantic Ballet -- Chapter Four Scarring the Air: Loie Fuller's Bodily Moderism -- Chapter Five Of Veils and Onion Skins: Fuller and Modern European Drama -- Afterword Thoughts on Contemporary Traces of Fuller -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Evolution of Fuller's Performance Aesthetic -- Chapter Two Electric Salome: Loie Fuller at the World's Fair of 1900 -- Chapter Three Fuller and the Romantic Ballet -- Chapter Four Scarring the Air: Loie Fuller's Bodily Moderism -- Chapter Five Of Veils and Onion Skins: Fuller and Modern European Drama -- Afterword Thoughts on Contemporary Traces of Fuller -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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