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ljrinaldi 's review for:
Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography
by Sabrina Jones
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.