Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism Contributor(s): Garelick, Rhonda K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691141096 ISBN-13: 9780691141091 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $35.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - Modern - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2006036908 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (0.75 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored pioneer of modern dance and stage technology, the electricity fairy who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian. |