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3.47 AVERAGE
What a woman! So glad I had an opportunity to learn about such an inspirational, strong force-to-be-reckoned-with. The illustrations are beautiful too. Highly recommended.
This was a great read on a great woman and fantastic cutting edge artist from the early 1900s, whom I knew nothing about until I read this graphic novel. Isadora inspires with every overthrown idea of tradition, of women's roles, of status quo, then she uses her wealth and fame to help others. Choppy but evocative drawing and very nicely done biography. Isadora Duncan is a true inspiration to women and artists and humans of all ages. Highly recommended!
I knew very little about Duncan before this, so it was interesting, but the book is a little choppy and sometimes it’s difficult to tell the characters apart.
Good book, but a bit difficult to follow at times.
This was fairly interesting - I didn't know much about Isadora Duncan before reading it. But the style was super choppy, so it flitted through time quickly without giving much meat at any one point. Someone said it was more of an illustrated timeline than a biography, and I agree with that.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death, Car accident
Solid biography with well suited art. Good stuff.
It sounds like it was hard going to get a real grasp on Isadora Duncan, not through any fault of the author but because she was something of an enigma. (What a shame that no video of her exists!) Still, Jones did an admirable job of bringing her to life on the page -- Duncan is a whirling, dancing free spirit in this interpretation, spinning across the pages with little regard for how her needs might affect others. It's not an unflattering portrayal, though; we see Duncan as selfish and stubborn and maybe a bit oblivious, but also as idealistic and generous and in many ways very strong.
Lots of questions remain, but...well, I suppose that seems appropriate somehow. I haven't read Duncan's autobiography or essays, but it does seem somehow that she'd be satisfied with a little bit (or a lot) of mystery, doesn't it?
Lots of questions remain, but...well, I suppose that seems appropriate somehow. I haven't read Duncan's autobiography or essays, but it does seem somehow that she'd be satisfied with a little bit (or a lot) of mystery, doesn't it?
This is a good book. As someone pointed out though when you are writing a biography you have to write what really happened and if it isn't exciting well what can you do.
The thing is this book is exciting and interesting in bits But other bits are confusing or boring.
Isadora Duncan was a woman ahead of her time. She believed in free love and acted on it every chance she got. She believed that a woman's body should not be tied up in corsets. And she believed and practiced what is now known as modern dance. This was all happening over a hundred years ago, and of course she caused a scandal. That was the cool parts of the book to read.
I think the main problem is, and the author mentioned this, no film was ever made of her dancing, so we have no reference, and despite this being a book about the mother of all modern dance, we do not actually see her dancing. We only see her posing, as those are all the photos we have to show how the dances went.
This is not a fault of the author. This is not a fault of the medium, but it does make what should be an exciting book not quite a exciting.
The thing is this book is exciting and interesting in bits But other bits are confusing or boring.
Isadora Duncan was a woman ahead of her time. She believed in free love and acted on it every chance she got. She believed that a woman's body should not be tied up in corsets. And she believed and practiced what is now known as modern dance. This was all happening over a hundred years ago, and of course she caused a scandal. That was the cool parts of the book to read.
I think the main problem is, and the author mentioned this, no film was ever made of her dancing, so we have no reference, and despite this being a book about the mother of all modern dance, we do not actually see her dancing. We only see her posing, as those are all the photos we have to show how the dances went.
This is not a fault of the author. This is not a fault of the medium, but it does make what should be an exciting book not quite a exciting.