Gestural Imaginaries - Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Ruprecht's study of dance and gesture does not just draw on philosophy, principally the writings of Walter Benjamin, it comprises a brilliant study of the medium of dance while simultaneously making a profound contribution to both dance studies and the philosophy of art. This is a work to be celebrated.

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Ruprecht, Lucia (Director of Studies in Modern and Ruprecht, Lucia (Fellow of Emmanuel College and an Ruprecht, Ruprecht Lucia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780190659370
• ISBN: 978-0-19-065937-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory; Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet, Theatre Studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, RUPRECHT:GESTURAL IMAGINARIES OSDT P