Giving Form to Black and Brown: The Art and Politics of Solidarity

Whereas chapter 2 examines the emergence of a social modernist theory of ballet in the 1930s, chapter 3 illustrates a new ballet modernism arising in the 1940s through the contributions of Edwin Denby. Denby’s primary innovation to American ballet theory was to reassign dance meaning from social or political themes to the intrinsic properties of the movement itself. This chapter takes a biographical approach to Denby’s criticism to situate this theoretical shift in ballet within the interdisciplinary New York School, in which he was extensively involved, and in which similar challenges to the relation of art and politics were being made by painters, photographers, and composers. This chapter demonstrates that Denby was the architect of a new objectivist theory of dance, which relocates the emergence of objectivism to a much earlier point in dance history, and in a different genre, than previously acknowledged. More than any other critic, Denby was responsible for connecting this objectivist theory of dance to Balanchine’s American neoclassicism, formulating the set of aesthetic principles that still shapes our idea of American ballet to date.

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French Images from the Greek War of Independence 1821-1830: Art and Politics under the Restoration

The Art Bulletin ◽

10.2307/3045878 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

pp. 339

Author(s):

Michael Paul Driskel ◽

Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

Keyword(s):

Art And Politics ◽

War Of Independence

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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross

German Studies Review ◽

10.1353/gsr.2021.0017 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 184-186

Author(s):

Rolf J. Goebel

Keyword(s):

Art And Politics

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Homenagem: Remembering the Life and Work of Abdias Nascimento

Journal of Black Studies ◽

10.1177/00219347211011587 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002193472110115

Author(s):

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry ◽

Anani Dzidzienyo

Keyword(s):

Military Service ◽

Black Studies ◽

Central Component ◽

Special Issue ◽

Art And Politics ◽

Black Politicians ◽

Brown University ◽

Black World ◽

The Relationship

This essay provides a brief introduction to this special issue focused on the life and work of Black Brazilian scholar-activist Abdias Nascimento. The contributors include, Vera Lucia Benedito, Ollie Johnson, Zachary Morgan, Elisa Larkin Nascimento, and Cheryl Sterling who all participated in a 2015 conference at Africana Studies at Brown University. This group of scholars aptly illustrate that Nascimento had long contributed to the internationalization of Black Studies as a field in US academe and he was crucial in establishing Brazil as a central component of the Black World. The essays have much to teach us about Nascimento’s views on the relationship between art and politics, the role of military service in shaping his activism, the significance of black politicians in the reconceptualization of Brazilian democracy, and the importance of preserving archives and expanding our understanding of the Black radical tradition.

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