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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Part One. Art, Dance, and American Consciousness 1 Expressing the Real or Imagined Heritage of a Nation 2 African American Dance and Art: A Confluence of Traditions from Minstrelsy to the Harlem Renaissance Part Two. Dance and the Legacies of Romanticism in American Art 3 Revisiting Arcadia: America's Longing for the Natural, the Pagan, and the Passionate 4 Romantic Imports: American Art's Love Affair with European Dance 5 The Ballets Russes and the \u0022Exotic\u0022 East: Folklore and Modernist Primitivism Invade American Art Part Three. \u0022The Complete Actual Present\u0022: Dancers and Visual Artists Explore the Immediate Cultural Moment (Expressions of Modernity) 6 Lo\u00efe Fuller, Art Nouveau, and the Technological Present 7 Social Dance: Visual Artists Take the Pulse of Twentieth-Century America 8 American Vernacular: Visual Art and the Dancing Mechanized Body Part Four. Terpsichore Transformed: Dance, the Liberated Body, and America's Artistic Revolutions 9 Class, Vice, and the Revolt against Puritanism 10 Dance, Visual Art, and America's Countercultures Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
