Tango: The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010 M06 23 - 384 páginas
In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”

Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood and dramatizations in dance halls throughout the world. He shows us tango not only as brilliant choreography but also as text, music, art, and philosophy of life. Passionately argued and unparalleled in its research, its synthesis, and its depth of understanding, Tango: The Art History of Love is a monumental achievement.
 

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MOVING WITH AN ARM AROUND LIFE
3
Tango in Hollywood
13
Tango as Text
25
The Cultural Preparation
48
The Call of the Blood III
111
The Great Buenos Aires Conversation
121
The Early Tango Called Canyengue
150
Tango as Music
168
Tango as Dance
219
EL TANGO by Robert Colescott
299
Notes
303
Acknowledgments
333
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Robert Farris Thompson is the author of, among other works, Black Gods and Kings, African Art in Motion, and Flash of the Spirit. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and has mounted major exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He is Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where he is also Master of Timothy Dwight College. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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