Empire of Ecstasy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of Ecstasy write by Karl Eric Toepfer. This book was released on 1997. Empire of Ecstasy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A massive achievement. . . . Toepfer respects the body, wants to understand movement as the primary medium of ideas, and gives women the central role they actually played in this aesthetic and intellectual discourse."Marcia B. Siegel, author of The Shapes of Change"
Empire of Ecstasy
Empire of Ecstasy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of Ecstasy write by Karl Toepfer. This book was released on 2023-12-22. Empire of Ecstasy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars—nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents this dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of "modern identity." The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy, as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious "inner" conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy. With the help of much unpublished or long-forgotten archival material (including many little-known photographs), he investigates the process of constructing an "empire" of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy. Toepfer presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with less-known but equally fascinating body culture practitioners. His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism.
King of X
King of X - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King of X write by Christopher King. This book was released on 2020-09-10. King of X available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Methodism
Methodism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Methodism write by David Hempton. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Methodism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
Altered State
Altered State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Altered State write by Matthew Collin. This book was released on 2010-12-09. Altered State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a cast of memorable characters to track the origins of the scene and its drug through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza, to the point where Tony Blair was using an Ecstasy anthem as an election campaign song. Altered State critically examines the ideologies and myths of the scene, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century.
