My Life (Revised and Updated)W. W. Norton & Company, 27 mei 2013 - 368 pagina's A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake. While many biographies have explored Duncan’s crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as critical—as both historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting life—as her autobiography. From her early enchantment with classical music and poetry to her great successes abroad, to her sensational love affairs and headline-grabbing personal tragedies, Duncan’s story is a dramatic one. My Life still stands alone as “a great document, revealing the truth of her life as she understood it, without reticence or apology or compromise” (New York Herald Tribune). Now, in this fully restored edition, with its risqué recollections and fervent idealism, My Life can be appreciated by a new generation. |
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Pagina ix
... souls. She told her students, “You are walking slowly towards the light” She spoke constantly of her “Idea,” without specifying what that was. Her good friend IVIax Eastman, editor of The Masses, wrote of the “admirable force of ...
... souls. She told her students, “You are walking slowly towards the light” She spoke constantly of her “Idea,” without specifying what that was. Her good friend IVIax Eastman, editor of The Masses, wrote of the “admirable force of ...
Pagina xvii
... soul. Martha Graham, though she was a pupil of St. Denis, is unimaginable without Duncan. In My Life Duncan says little about her legacy, probably because she died before she could see much of it. She left her mark not just on modern ...
... soul. Martha Graham, though she was a pupil of St. Denis, is unimaginable without Duncan. In My Life Duncan says little about her legacy, probably because she died before she could see much of it. She left her mark not just on modern ...
Pagina xxxii
... soul soaring aloft, not really affected by any of them. It has been well said that the first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. To write of what one has actually experienced ...
... soul soaring aloft, not really affected by any of them. It has been well said that the first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. To write of what one has actually experienced ...
Pagina xxxiii
... soul, his most intimate actions and thoughts. The result is a great book. Walt Whitman gave his truth to America. At one time his book was forbidden to the mails as an “immoral book” This term seems absurd to us now. No woman has ever ...
... soul, his most intimate actions and thoughts. The result is a great book. Walt Whitman gave his truth to America. At one time his book was forbidden to the mails as an “immoral book” This term seems absurd to us now. No woman has ever ...
Pagina xxxv
... soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty. Perhaps one of the most wonderful personalities of our times is Gabriele D'Annunzio, and yet he is small and, except when his face lights up, can hardly be called beautiful. But ...
... soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty. Perhaps one of the most wonderful personalities of our times is Gabriele D'Annunzio, and yet he is small and, except when his face lights up, can hardly be called beautiful. But ...
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