The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 7, 2024
Isadora Duncan
c. 1910
Location: not on view
Description
By dancing to the music of the great masters—Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, Scriabin, and Wagner—music that was considered "above" dance, Duncan elevated dance to a level of artistic appreciation it had not received since the days of the ancient Greeks. She stripped the staging down to a bare, curtained space, and the costuming to simple, flowing tunics, allowing movement and the music to be the focal point of her artistic statement. Enraptured by Duncan, Walkowitz made more than a thousand drawings of his subject. For him, "she had no laws. She did not dance according to the rules. She created. Her body was music."- “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218. Mentioned: p. 164 www.jstor.org
- Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).
- {{cite web|title=Isadora Duncan|url=false|author=Abraham Walkowitz|year=c. 1910|access-date=07 December 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.58