 Merce Cunningham, the modernizing of modern dance.
Author: Copeland, Roger Published: 2004 The first complete critical overview of Cunningham's entire body of work, extending from his earliest solos through to his most recent experiments with digital technology. Copeland argues that Cunningham is the only choreographer whose work is central to one of the great sea-changes of the arts in the last fifty years: the movement away from the hot, anguished, deeply personal energies of abstract expressionism toward a much cooler, intellectual, and impersonal mode of art-making. The book is also the first to examine Cunningham's movement in relation to the musical scores of John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown. |
