11/9/2023 0 Comments Isadora duncan my life![]() Top of page block a little stained and darkened other edges tidy. Ffep has a few light marks, contents otherwise tight, bright and clean without marks or inscriptions without foxing and with minimal age-toning throughout. Octavo blue cloth boards with gilt details to spine, a little age-darkened but predominantly neat and clean. ![]() JUNE 1966 Reissue of the First Edition of May 1928.(First Thus). She is buried besides her children (who pre deceased her) in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Duncan famously died as a result of her silk scarf becoming entangled in the wheel spokes of an open sports car at Nice on the Riviera, giving rise to Gertrude Stein's mordant remark that 'affectations can be dangerous'. From her early enchantment with classical music and poetry to her great successes abroad, to her sensational love affairs and headline grabbing personal tragedies, Duncan?s story is a dramatic one. While many biographies have explored Duncan?s crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as critical, as both historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting life, as her autobiography. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake. Some edge wear to top and bottom of covers and spine, spine slightly faded, some fraying to top of spine, corners rubbed and bruised, frontispiece photo of Isadora slightly detached and reglued in, no inscriptions, some slight spotting and browning to page fore edges, no inscriptions, internally clean tightish and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. First edition, second impression, published later the same year. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. Now, in this fully restored edition, with its risqu? recollections and fervent idealism, My Life can be appreciated by a new generation. My Life still stands alone as "a great document, revealing the truth of her life as she understood it, without reticence or apology or compromise" (New York Herald Tribune). From her early enchantment with classical music and poetry to her great successes abroad, to her sensational love affairs and headline-grabbing personal tragedies, Duncan's story is a dramatic one. While many biographies have explored Duncan's crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as criticalas both historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting lifeas her autobiography. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake. I must have been about two or three years old, but I distinctly remember the comforting feeling, among all the excitement-the screams and the flames-of the security of the policeman and my little arms round his neck. I remember being thrown into the arms of a policeman from an upper window. And in fact from the moment I was born it seemed that I began to agitate my arms and legs in such a fury that my mother cried, "You see I was quite right, the child is a maniac!" But later on, placed in a baby jumper in the centre of the table I was the amusement of the entire family and friends, dancing to any music that was played. My mother was going through such a tragic experience at this time that she often said, "This child that will be born will surely not be normal," and she expected a monster. If people ask me when I began to dance I reply, "In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne-the food of Aphrodite." She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne. ![]() Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. The character of a child is already plain, even in its mother's womb.
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