The Dancer’s Revenge: Dance/Pantomime and the Emergence of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Fantasy Pictures
2018; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 41; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/01472526.2018.1453747
ISSN1532-4257
Autores ResumoGerman writers became intensely interested in pantomime during the decade before World War I. While scholars have addressed the impact of pantomime upon dance and theater of the period, little discussion has focused on how it affected painting. I consider how Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s response to pantomime’s silent movement and metaphysical content influenced his depictions of dancers between 1912 and 1915. He had previously simply recorded various dance movements, but now pantomime encouraged him to use the theme of dance to symbolically represent the relationship between man and woman in his so-called “fantasy pictures.”
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