Acknowledgements
iv
Abstract
vii
Prologue
1
Chapter 1:
Introductions:
American Art and the Balletic Tradition
in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century
4
Chapter 2:
Pioneers of Modernism:
American Artists Discover Isadora Duncan
40
Chapter 3:
Staging the Exotic:
Sculpture, Ruth St. Denis, and Josephine Baker
86
Chapter 4:
The Production of a Dance:
H. Lyman Saÿen, Franz Kline, and the Ballets Russes
130
Chapter 5:
Dance and High Modernism:
Martha Graham in Painting, Sculpture, and Photography
170
Chapter 6:
Conclusions:
Dance and Abstract Art
220
Epilogue
251
Bibliography
254
Table of Figures
272
Illustrations
286