كتاب
Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935
| العنوان: | Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 |
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| المؤلفون: | Toepfer, Karl Eric, 1948- |
| بيانات النشر: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997. |
| سنة النشر: | 1997 |
| وصف مادي: | xvii, 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Weimar and now Weimar and now |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physical education and training -- Germany -- History -- 20th century., Dance -- Germany -- History -- 20th century., Nudism -- Sociological aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century., Nudity in dance -- Germany -- History -- 20th century., Body image -- Germany., Nudism -- Germany -- Sociological aspects -- History -- 20th century., Dancing -- history., Nudism -- history., Gymnastics -- history., Physical Education and Training -- history. |
| الوصف: | Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of 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. Karl Toepfer presents this dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of "modern identity," which stimulated often contradictory impulses, desires, and ambitions in participants and enthusiasts. Through the presentation and analysis of unpublished archival material (including many little-known photographs) and the reclamation of forgotten discourses of fashion, gymnastics, nudism, and the visual arts, he investigates the process of constructing an "empire" of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy. Toepfer presents the work of well-known figures such as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as many obscure but equally fascinating practitioners of German body culture. His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm35159332 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-520-20663-2 0-520-20663-0 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.007545619.2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780520206632 0520206630 |
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