[ebooks] Whippoorwill Calls: Art Only Edition by Gabrielle Songe in Arts-Photography

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Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States; she attained international celebrity as a dancer; inventor; impresario; and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmeacute;; Toulouse-Lautrec; Rodin; Sarah Bernhardt; and Isadora Duncan. Today; though; she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology; the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelicks Electric Salome; Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor; but an artist of great psychological; emotional; and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet; Art Nouveau; Orientalism; surrealism; the birth of cinema; American modern dance; and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances; situated within broader historical; cultural; and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written; the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure; uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris; became a star; and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.