Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace

Contents

List of Illustrations viii Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Chronology xvii Introduction 3 Part One. Art, Dance, and American Consciousness 1 Expressing the Real or Imagined Heritage of a Nation 13 2 African American Dance and Art: A Confluence of Traditions from Minstrelsy to the Harlem Renaissance 53 Part Two. Dance and the Legacies of Romanticism in American Art 3 Revisiting Arcadia: America’s Longing for the Natural, the Pagan, and the Passionate 95 4 Romantic Imports: American Art’s Love Affair with European Dance 108 5 The Ballets Russes and the “Exotic” East: Folklore and Modernist Primitivism Invade American Art 133 Part Three. “The Complete Actual Present”: Dancers and Visual Artists Explore the Immediate Cultural Moment (Expressions of Modernity) 6 Loïe Fuller, Art Nouveau, and the Technological Present 177 7 Social Dance: Visual Artists Take the Pulse of Twentieth-Century America 187 8 American Vernacular: Visual Art and the Dancing Mechanized Body 199 Part Four. Terpsichore Transformed: Dance, the Liberated Body, and America’s Artistic Revolutions 9 Class, Vice, and the Revolt against Puritanism 223 10 Dance, Visual Art, and America’s Countercultures 253 Conclusion 265 Notes 271 Bibliography 303 Index 321 Contents ...