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The ecstasy of being : mythology and dance
- Title
- The ecstasy of being : mythology and dance / Joseph Campbell.
- Author
- Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987
- Publication
- Novato, California : New World Library, [2017]
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- Description
- xxi, 242 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Dance was one of mythologist Joseph Campbell's wide-ranging passions. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in modern dance who worked with Martha Graham and had Merce Cunningham in her first company. When Campbell retired from teaching in 1972, he and Erdman formed the Theater of the Open Eye, where for nearly fifteen years they presented a wide array of dance and theater productions, lectures, and performance pieces. The Ecstasy of Being brings together seven of Campbell's previously uncollected articles on dance, along with "Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts," the treatise that he was working on when he died, published here for the first time. In this new collection Campbell explores the rise of modern art and dance in the twentieth century; delves into the work and philosophy of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and others; and, as always, probes the idea of art as "the funnel through which spirit is poured into life." This book offers the reader an accessible, yet profound and provocative, insight into Campbell's lifelong fascination with the relationship of myth to aesthetic form and human psychology.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
- Call Number
- *MGRL 18-2330
- ISBN
- 9781608683666
- 1608683664
- LCCN
- 2017030933
- OCLC
- 1003668983
- 1003668983
- Author
- Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987, author.
- Title
- The ecstasy of being : mythology and dance / Joseph Campbell.
- Publisher
- Novato, California : New World Library, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *MGRL 18-2330