Kuratieren!. by Obrist, Hans-Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Titel; Zum Buch; Über den Autor; Impressum; Widmung; Inhalt; Prolog: Der Lauf der Dinge; Bei Alighiero Boetti; Mondialité; do it; Kuratieren, Ausstellungen und das Gesamtkunstwerk; Courbet, Manet und Whistler; Wissen sammeln; Von Bibliotheken und Archiven; Gedruckte Ausstellungen; Endlose Konversationen; Pioniere; Nachtzüge und andere Rituale; Die Küche; Robert Walser und Gerhard Richter; Mentoren; Félix Fénéon und das Hotel Carlton Palace; Unsichtbare Städte; London Calling; Architektur, Stadtplanung und Ausstellungen; Biennalen; Utopia Station; Ballets Russes; Zeit und Ausstellungen…”
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Imitation artist : Gertrude Hoffmann's life in vaudeville and dance / by Stalter-Pace, Sunny, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Learning How to Copy, 1883-1906 -- A Ballet Girl in San Francisco -- Teaming Up with Max Hoffmann -- A Woman Stage Manager -- Solo Imitations, 1906-1909 -- Imitative Caricatures -- Women's Rivalry and Copyright -- A Vision of Salome -- Producing Revues, 1910-1914 -- Gertrude Hoffmann's Review -- Pirating the Ballets Russes -- Mainstream Modernism -- All-American Artist -- New Directions, 1914-1923 -- Grecian Dance, Pantomime, and Silent Film -- Snake Acts and Other Wartime Spectacles -- Just Drifting -- From Advanced Vaudeville to Cabaret -- Offstage, 1923-1966 -- The Gertrude Hoffmann Girls, At Home and Abroad -- Modern Dance and Floor Shows -- Remembering -- Conclusion…”
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A revolution in movement : dancers, painters, and the image of modern Mexico / by Snow, K. Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…An Anthropologist Orders a Beer: The Development of Mexican Nationalism -- Mexicanism Russian Style: Roberto Montenegro, Diego Rivera, and the Ballets Russes -- The Precursors of Mexicanism: Anna Pavlova and Tórtola Valencia -- The Philosopher as an Artist Writ Large: JoséVasconcelos, Muralism, and Folk Art -- Dancing a Sandunga in English: Carlos Chavez and Diego Rivera in the United States -- A Question of Technique: Carlos Merida and a Mexican School of Dance -- Competing Modernisms: Anna Sokolow and Waldeen -- Ballets without Ballerinas? …”
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