"Your Isadora": The Love Story Of Isadora Duncan's & Gordon Craig
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A richly intimate work of biographical scholarship, Your Isadora: The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig chronicles one of the most passionate and turbulent romances of the early twentieth century through the lovers' own words. Drawing on a cache of previously unpublished letters, editor Francis Steegmuller presents the fiery correspondence between Isadora Duncan, the revolutionary American dancer, and Edward Gordon Craig, the visionary British theater designer, whose relationship burned with equal parts creative inspiration and emotional devastation. The letters, annotated with Steegmuller's authoritative commentary, illuminate two towering artistic personalities whose ambitions, egos, and desires collided spectacularly against the backdrop of Edwardian Europe. The tone is at once tender and raw, capturing the soaring ecstasy and bitter heartbreak that defined their years together and apart. This meticulously assembled volume stands as an essential document for anyone captivated by the intersection of art, love, and the bohemian spirit of the Belle Époque.
Author: Francis Steegmuller
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A richly intimate work of biographical scholarship, Your Isadora: The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig chronicles one of the most passionate and turbulent romances of the early twentieth century through the lovers' own words. Drawing on a cache of previously unpublished letters, editor Francis Steegmuller presents the fiery correspondence between Isadora Duncan, the revolutionary American dancer, and Edward Gordon Craig, the visionary British theater designer, whose relationship burned with equal parts creative inspiration and emotional devastation. The letters, annotated with Steegmuller's authoritative commentary, illuminate two towering artistic personalities whose ambitions, egos, and desires collided spectacularly against the backdrop of Edwardian Europe. The tone is at once tender and raw, capturing the soaring ecstasy and bitter heartbreak that defined their years together and apart. This meticulously assembled volume stands as an essential document for anyone captivated by the intersection of art, love, and the bohemian spirit of the Belle Époque.