{"product_id":"marking-modern-movement-dance-and-gender-in-the-visual-imagery-of-the-weimar-republic-9780472054619","title":"Marking Modern Movement: Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Funkenstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine yourself in Weimar Germany: you are visually inundated with depictions of dance. Perusing a women's magazine, you find photograph after photograph of leggy revue starlets, clad in sequins and feathers, coquettishly smiling at you. When you attend an art exhibition, you encounter Otto Dix's six-foot-tall triptych \u003ci\u003eMetropolis, \u003c\/i\u003efeaturing Charleston dancers in the latest luxurious fashions, or Emil Nolde's watercolors of Mary Wigman, with their luminous blues and purples evoking her choreographies' mystery and expressivity. Invited to the Bauhaus, you participate in the Metallic Festival, and witness the school's transformation into a humorous, shiny, technological total work of art; you costume yourself by strapping a metal plate to your head, admire your reflection in the tin balls hanging from the ceiling, and dance the Bauhaus' signature step in which you vigorously hop and stomp late into the night. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet behind the razzle dazzle of these depictions and experiences was one far more complex involving issues of gender and the body during a tumultuous period in history, Germany's first democracy (1918-1933). Rather than mere titillation, the images copiously illustrated and analyzed in \u003ci\u003eMarking Modern Movement\u003c\/i\u003e illuminate how visual artists and dancers befriended one another and collaborated together. In many ways because of these bonds, artists and dancers forged a new path in which images revealed artists' deep understanding of dance, their dynamic engagement with popular culture, and out of that, a possibility of representing women dancers as cultural authorities to be respected. Through six case studies, \u003ci\u003eMarking Modern Movement \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how and why these complex dynamics occurred in ways specific to their historical moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Extensively illustrated and with color plates, \u003ci\u003eMarking Modern Movement\u003c\/i\u003e is a clearly written book accessible to general readers and undergraduates. Coming at a time of a growing number of major art museums showcasing large-scale exhibitions on images of dance, the audience exists for a substantial general-public interest in this topic. Conversing across German studies, art history, dance studies, gender studies, and popular culture studies, \u003ci\u003eMarking Modern Movement \u003c\/i\u003eis intended to engage readers coming from a wide range of perspectives and interests. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46289710284951,"sku":"9780472054619","price":3890.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780472054619.webp?v=1767700460","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/marking-modern-movement-dance-and-gender-in-the-visual-imagery-of-the-weimar-republic-9780472054619","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}