Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing

by Ann Cooper Albright

Watercolors by a modernist master capture the beginnings of modern dance

This small and beautifully illustrated book showcases the work of two great American modernists, painter Abraham Walkowitz and dancer Isadora Duncan. Born in the same year (1878), both artists influenced the development of modern art in the early twentieth century by blending figurative gesture with abstraction. Duncan grew up in a free-spirited and artistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081957077X
• ISBN13: 9780819570772
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up