Marking modern movement : dance and gender in the visual imagery of the weimar republic / Susan Funkenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Funkenstein, Susan, author.

Series:

Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women dancers--History--Germany--20th century.

Women dancers.

Dancers in art.

Dance in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2020]

Summary:

Imagine yourself in Weimar Germany: you are visually inundated with depictions of dance. Perusing a women's magazine, you find photograph after photograph of leggy revue starlets, clad in sequins and feathers, coquettishly smiling at you. When you attend an art exhibition, you encounter Otto Dix's six-foot-tall triptych Metropolis, featuring.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Dance Like It's 1919: Hannah Höch's Not So Liberated Dancers of the Early Weimar Republic

2. There's Something About Mary (Wigman): Expressionist Art, Women's Magazines, and the Woman Dancer as Subject

3. Kicklines for Feminists: Women's Pleasures in the Weimar Revue

4. The Weimar Vogue for Black Dance: Josephine Baker and the Colonial Imaginary

5. It Takes Two to Shimmy: Gender and Race in Otto Dix's World of Social Dancing

6. Designed to Dance: Gender and the Gesamttanzwerk at the Bauhaus

Conclusion: Marking (Modern) Movement in the Third Reich

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-472-12708-X

OCLC:

1159623848