Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years
Merce Cunningham, David Vaughan, Melissa Harris
Hardcover: 320 pages (Sep 1997) Language English 250x310mm Original Price $ 75.00
ISBN / Barcode: 0893816248
Categoria: Danza Fotografici
Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years evbkes the essence of Merce Cunningham: the man, bis choreography, his seminal role in the history of the arts in postwar America and Europe, and bis larger vision as it penains io the relationship between art and life. The book celebrates the past fifty years of Cunningham's career, from his role as principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, io the formation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Black Mountain College in 1953 (and the subsequent collaborations with many of the great artists of this century), from his use of "chance operations," io bis present, innovative work with the computer program, LifeForms. Merce Cunningham: Fífty Years incorporates images of performances and rehearsals, along with candid photographs by many important photographers, including Imogen Cunningham, Arnold Eagle, Peter Hujar, James Klosty, Annie Leibovitz, Barbara Morgan, and Max Waldman. The book also features examples of Cunningham's choreographic notes, as well as scores, and set and costume designs by the artists with whom he has collaborated over the years, including William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, John Cage, Morris Graves, Jasper Johns, Takehisa Kosugi, Mark Lancaster, Robert Mor-ris, Bruce Nauman, Isamu Noguchi, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Marsha Skinner, Frank Stella, David Tudor, and Andy Warhol.
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