Description: Gestural Imaginaries by Lucia Ruprecht Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Publisher Description Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadiss concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginarys embodied forms. Close readings of dances, photographs, and literary texts are juxtaposed with discussions ofgestural theory by thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Aby Warburg. Choreographic gesture is defined as a force of intermittency that creates a new theoretical status of dance. Author LuciaRuprecht shows how this also bears on contemporary theory. She shifts emphasis from Giorgio Agambens preoccupation with gestural mediality to Jacques Rancières multiplicity of proliferating, singular gestures, arguing for their ethical and political relevance. Mobilizing dance history and movement analysis, Ruprecht highlights the critical impact of works by choreographers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Jo Mihaly, and Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff. She also offers choreographic readingsof Franz Kafka and Alfred Döblin. Gestural Imaginaries proposes that modernist dance conducts a gestural revolution which enacts but also exceeds the insights of past and present cultural theory. It makes acase for archive-based, cross-medial, and critically informed dance studies, transnational German studies, and the theoretical potential of performance itself. Author Biography Lucia Ruprecht is a Fellow of Emmanuel College and an affiliated Lecturer in the Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, UK. She studied German and French literature at Universities in Germany, France, and the UK. She has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of Theater Studies, Free University Berlin, and the inaugural Visiting Research Scholar at Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, Philadelphia.She works at the intersection of dance, film, literature, and cultural theory from the enlightenment to the contemporary. Details ISBN 0190659386 ISBN-13 9780190659387 Title Gestural Imaginaries Author Lucia Ruprecht Format Paperback Year 2019 Pages 352 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:134051128; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780190659387
Book Title: Gestural Imaginaries
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Gestural Imaginaries : Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Genres & Styles / Ballet, Dance / Modern, European, Genres & Styles / Dance, Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.6 Oz
Subject Area: Music, Art, Performing Arts
Author: Lucia Ruprecht
Item Length: 6.1 in
Item Width: 9.2 in
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
