Dancing with the Modernist City : Metropolitan Dance Texts Around 1900
As the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris and Berlin for a chance to experience a bustling urban life and engage with other artists and intellectuals. Among them were German-speaking authors and filmmakers such as Harry Graf Kessler, Rainer Maria Rilke...
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University of Michigan Press
2024
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