Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism

by Rhonda K. Garelick

Book Overview

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarm?, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691141096
• ISBN13: 9780691141091
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"