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OUT LOUD. A Memoir

2019rif. 15351New York: Penguin Press 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the title page by Mark Morris. From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time the exuberant tale of a young dancer’s rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own terms—and staying true to himself. Before Mark Morris became “the most successful and influential choreographer alive” The New York Times he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his feet into Tupperware glasses so that he could practice walking on pointe. Often the only boy in the dance studio he was called a sissy a term he wore like a badge of honor. He was unlike anyone else deeply gifted and spirited. Moving to New York at nineteen he arrived to one of the great booms of dance in America. Audiences in 1976 had the luxury of Merce Cunningham’s finest experiments with time and space of Twyla Tharp’s virtuosity and Lucinda Childs’s genius. Morris was flat broke but found a group of likeminded artists that danced together travelled together slept together. No one wanted to break the spell or miss a thing because “if you missed anything you missed everything.” This collective led by Morris’s fiercely original vision became the famed Mark Morris Dance Group. Suddenly Morris was making a fast ascent. Celebrated by The New Yorker’s critic as one of the great young talents an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangelo’s David he and his company had arrived. Collaborations with the likes of Mikhail Baryshnikov Yo-Yo Ma Lou Harrison and Howard Hodgkin followed. And so did controversy: from the circus of his tenure at La Monnaie in Belgium to his work on the biggest flop in Broadway history. But through the Reagan-Bush era the worst of the AIDS epidemic through rehearsal squabbles and backstage intrigues Morris emerged as one of the great visionaries of modern dance a force of nature with a dedication to beauty and a love of the body an artist as joyful as he is provocative. This is the bighearted and outspoken story of a man as formidable on the page as he is on the boards. With unusual candor and disarming wit Morris’s memoir captures the life of a performer who broke the mold a brilliant maverick who found his home in the collective and liberating world of music and dance. Illustrated from photographs. 374 pages with index. Penguin Press hardcover

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Powell, J (John) W (Wesley), Jesse Walter Fewkes and Cyrus ThomasBiblio.com

Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1900 - 1901 Part 1 AS NEW Extra Postage for Overseas Orders is Mandated as Book Weighs 5 lbs.

1904rif. 30096Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1904. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy folio 27.75cm/11inches full gilt-embossed olive-coloured cloth sans dust jacket pp. xliv 320 indexed. Illustrated with LXXXII b-w halftone and colour plates and 170 sketches incorporated within the text. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Features: Two Summers' Workin Pueblo Ruins by Jesse Walter Fewkes and Mayan Calender Systems by Cyrus Thomas. .Fewkes surveyed the ruins of a number of cultures in the American Southwest and wrote many well received articles and books.citation needed He supervised the excavation of the Casa Grande ruins in southern Arizona a Hohokam site and the Mesa Verde ruins in southern Colorado an Ancient Pueblo site. He particularly focused on the variants and styles of prehistoric Southwest Indian pottery producing a number of volumes with carefully drawn illustrations. His work on the Mimbres and Sikyátki pottery styles eventually led to the reproduction of many of these traditional forms and images. The Hopi potter Nampeyo became his friend and reproduced the newly documented traditional designs in her own work. . In 1858Thomas founded the Illinois Natural History Society. In 1869 he was apponted the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories under Professor Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. Thomas was also the agricultural statistician and entomologist on the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 whose work supported the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. Government Printing Office hardcover

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Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902) [editor]Biblio.com

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology 1893-1894

1897rif. A0060cxxi366 pages with frontispiece 125 plates 49 figures and index. Quarto 11 1/2" x 8 1/4" bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. Papers by William Henry Holmes Stone implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake tidewater province page 3-152 plates I-CIII and frontispiece figures 1-29a; W J McGeen The Siouxan Indians: A preliminary sketch pages 153-204; James Owen Dorsey Siouxan sociology: A posthumous paper pages 205-244 and figures 30-38; Jesse Walter Fewkes Tusayan katcinas pages 245-313 plates CIV-CXI and figures 39-48; Cosmos Mindeleff The repair of Casa Grande ruin Arizona in 1891 pages 315-349 and plates CXII-CXXV. Edited by J W Powell. List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology pgs 5-6 From the library of David H Snow. First edition. Although classified by most conventional texts John Wesley Powell always maintained that he was not an adventure or an explorer. He considered himself a scientist motivated by a desire for knowledge and to further the progress of human kind. However Powell did live a busy and active life as a military leader the first navigator of the Colorado River and director of the United States Geological Survey. His accounts from navigating the Colorado River earned him early fame. Due to his compassion toward Native Americans he was elevated to director of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology in which he continued until his death. His work on the Irrigation Survey for the western United States although never fully realized lead to the establishment of river gauging stations and preliminary work toward storage and utilization of river water for irrigation and prevention of floods and overflows. In 1979 the highway salvage program of the Laboratory of Anthropology expanded beyond highway salvage projects. Under the direction of David H. Snow it was reorganized as the Research Section of the Laboratory of Anthropology. The change guaranteed that the program had a dynamic role in the active profession of archaeology that it continued to add to the Lab's research collections and that publications on projects continued to be produced. By 1984 the Research Section staff had outgrown its location in the Laboratory of Anthropology. Along with the Laboratory's archaeological research collection of almost ten million artifacts the Research Section moved to new offices in downtown Santa Fe. Condition: David Snow's signature on front end paper light rubbing to back hinge corners bumped else a very good. Government Printing Office hardcover

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