Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is similarly underpinned by deeper meanings and philosop hies. From tattoos and mini-…
'Poetics of Dance' looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics of classical ballet. Author Gabriele Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and tre…
When it was first published in German in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of …
'Poetics of Dance' looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics of classical ballet. Author Gabriele Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and tre…
When it was first published in German in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of …
Manoevring between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, Bodies of Thought is an innovative assessment of Foucaultian, Eliasian and feminist approaches to the body and a sustained critique of post-Cartesian dualisms.
Manoevring between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, Bodies of Thought is an innovative assessment of Foucaultian, Eliasian and feminist approaches to the body and a sustained critique of post-Cartesian dualisms. In this incisive and truly impressive book…
