Remember Isadora Duncan : Bilder und Zeichnungen von Pierre Devreux
1989
Book, 20 x 21 cm, publisher : Galerie Wolf, Düsseldorf, author : Marcel Daloze.
Materials: Ink, paper
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 1993/970).
Remembering Isadora Duncan:
Pagan Priestess of Dance
The life of Isadora Duncan was marked by opposition to every aspect of bourgeois modernity. Born on May 27, 1878, she was devoted to creating a form of dance, religious in nature, worthy of interpreting Greek tragedies and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (1). Today she often is celebrated as the creator of “modern dance”; such a description is a misnomer, at best, as her entire life was a conscious revolt against the modern world. Sometimes she turned to the world of Tradition; other times, her revolt was in the wrong direction—toward Communism, for example—but these ideological jaunts are understandable in light of her naivety and idealism.
