My Life

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Liveright
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 322 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The visionary choreographer and dancer, Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) not only revolutionised dance in the twentieth century, but she blazed a path within the art for other pioneers. In light of Duncans innovations and their impact on her contemporaries in the press, in the arts and among the intelligentsia of Europe, she became a cultural phenomenon, with particular spiritual and `soul-ful attributes. By 1903 when she was hailed in Germany as die gottliche, heilige Isadora (the goddess-like one, St. Isadora) and carried triumphantly through the streets on unhitched carriages by the public she had shifted from a mere celebrity to a cultural icon. While many biographies have explored Duncans crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as critical - both as a historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting life as her autobiography. Now, from her early enchantment with classical music and poetry, to her great successes abroad, to her scandalous love affairs and headline-grabbing tragedies, Duncans My Life can be appreciated by a new generation.

ISBN: 9780871403186