About this title: Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic. Gordon weaves the history of medical science, ethnology, and popular culture into a groundbreaking exploration of the cultural implications of gesture in dance performances at late-nineteenth-century Parisian cafe-concerts and music halls.While art historians have studied the ties between primitivism and modernism, their convergence in fin ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780754652434ISBN:0754652432
Description: New. Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, the author argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic. read more
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