Dance and American Art

Sharyn R. Udall is an art historian, author, and independent curator who has written, taught and lectured widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European art. She is the author of six previous books, as well as the editor of many catalogs and scholarly articles. Her scholarly interests include women in the visual arts, American modernism, and the creative connections among visual artists, performing artists, and writers. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Preface Acknowledgments Chronology   Introduction   Part One. Art, Dance, and American Consciousness 1 Expressing the Real or Imagined Heritage of a Nation 2 African American Dance and Art: A Confluence of Traditions from Minstrelsy to the Harlem Renaissance   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 4 Romantic Imports: American Art's Love Affair with European Dance 5 The Ballets Russes and the /u0022Exotic/u0022 East: Folklore and Modernist Primitivism Invade American Art   Part Three. /u0022The Complete Actual Present/u0022: Dancers and Visual Artists Explore the Immediate Cultural Moment (Expressions of Modernity) 6 Lo/u00efe Fuller, Art Nouveau, and the Technological Present 7 Social Dance: Visual Artists Take the Pulse of Twentieth-Century America 8 American Vernacular: Visual Art and the Dancing Mechanized Body   Part Four. Terpsichore Transformed: Dance, the Liberated Body, and America's Artistic Revolutions 9 Class, Vice, and the Revolt against Puritanism 10 Dance, Visual Art, and America's Countercultures   Conclusion   Notes Bibliography Index