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OUT LOUD. A Memoir

2019réf. 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

Ed Smith Books · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 67,01 €

Headland, Isaac Taylor, 1859-1942; Sui Wesley Chan, 1900-1961Biblio.com

Chinese rhymes for children with a few from India Japan and Korea

1933réf. 009836Fleming H. Revell Company New York London Edinburgh ; MCMXXXIII c1933 1933. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 1st. ed 1st printing 156 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. OCLC 4310679 ; dark red cloth with black lettering and designs in yellow ; no dustjacket ; decorative endpapers ; Sui Wesley Chan c1900- Soy Jung Chan was from Tong Lee Toishan China Sun Ning ; In August of 1921 he came down from Canada to Chicao to study at the Art Institute. In 1929 his studios were in the Arcade building 36th and Ellis and he was of Hyde Park's artists to have a picture hung in the exhibition of the Chicago Society of Artists at the Stevens hotel. By 1930 he was married to Florence Mah and living on Ellis Avenue as a self-employed artist creating water colors oils and lithographs. Sui Wesley Chan's only verified exhibition was 30th Annual Exhibition of Student Work at Sullivan Galleries and Betty Rymer Gallery - School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago IL in 1930. When he returned to Canton the Canton government school of art appointed him head of the western art department with headquarters in that city. He suffered the loss of most of his works among them several pieces that he considered his best. They were destroyed when the Japanese blew up his studio in Canton China. He just managed to escape ahead of them. Chan died in Manhattan in 1961. This book illustrated in 1933 was mentioned in Reformed Church Messenger Women and Missions and The Chinese Recorder. Isaac Taylor Headland 1859-1942 was a distinguished scholar missionary and author who spent significant time in China during the late Qing Dynasty. He was born in Pennsylvania and attended Mount Union College before furthering his theological training at Boston University. Iin 1890. That October he arrived in China as a missionary under the auspices of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission. He was posted in Beijing and served as a professor of science at Peking University 1890-1907 and as president of the Anglo-Chinese College in Fuzhou 1901-14. He married Marian Sinclair a practicing physician in Beijing in 1894. Headland was able to write about court life in China through her connections with female patients there. On his return to the United States Headland taught comparative religion at Mount Union College 1914-37. Headland's collection of Chinese paintings was exhibited at the Art Society in Pittsburgh in 1908 and at the Century Club in New York and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York in 1909. He also published numerous articles and books illustrated with photographs of China. ; presentation on the front endpaper to a young Dr Hugh Adair Cox MD 1933-1975 by his aunt ; a contemporary Christmas label on front endpaper ; scarce FINE Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, London, Edinburgh ; MCMXXXIII [c1933] hardcover

Joseph Valles - Books · États-Unis135,00 $US≈ 120,61 €

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