Genthe's The Book of the Dance, 1916
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Author: Genthe, Arnold
Title: The Book of the Dance
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Mitchell Kennerley
Date Published: [1916]
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With over 100 half-tones from photographs by Arnold Genthe in b&w and 6 in color illustrating all schools of the Dance. 26.3x18 cm (10¼x7"), original green cloth lettered in gilt with a gilt cover vignette of a dancer. First Edition.
Includes images of Isadora Duncan, Anna Pavlova, Ruth St. Denis, and other notable dancers of the period. In his Foreward, Genthe states "When I decided to publish in book form the pictures of the dance which I made during the last few years, my object was not to make a book of personalities. I merely wanted to show some of the phases of modern dance tendencies that could be recorded in a pictorially interesting manner. This, therefore, is meant to be just a picture book, permanently recording something of the fugitive charm of rhythmic motion, significant gesture and brilliant color which the dance has once more brought into our lives.
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