Empire of Ecstasy - Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935

Informationen zum Autor Karl Toepfer is Professor of Theater Arts at San Jose State University. Klappentext "A massive achievement. . . . Toepfer respects the body! wants to understand movement as the primary medium of ideas! and gives women the central role they actually played in this aesthetic and intellectual discourse."-Marcia B. Siegel! author of The Shapes of Change Zusammenfassung Interprets the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. This book presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Toepfer, Toepfer Karl
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.1997
• EAN: 9780520206632
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20663-2
• No. of pages: 439
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 237 mm x 36 mm
• Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism; Weimar and Now: German Cultura; Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism; Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book; Dance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Dance & Other Performing Arts