
Dance: A Very Social History
128 pages
158 illustrations
8.75 x 11.25 in
This title is out of print.
Foreword
Philippe de Montebello
Preface
Diana Vreeland
Introduction
Yoshio Ohno
Chapter 1: Dreams of Flight
Carol McD. Wallace
Dancing Lessons
Stages of the Ball
Chapter 2: The Evolution of Social Dancing
Don McDonagh
Chapter 3: The Fabric of Dance: Whalebone and Swirling Silk
Jean L. Druesedow
Chapter 4: The Iconography of Dance
Laurence Libin and Constance Old
Picture Credits
Met Art in Publication
Lucile Ltd., New York
Lucy Christiana Duff-Gordon
1914–29
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1840
Alfred Stevens
1874
Rudolph Ackermann, London
1809–28
Multiple artists/makers
1833
Mr. Lechard
Landrin
18th century
Marie-Louis-Pierre Vidal
1899
Lou Barlow
Louis Breslow
1939
Antoine Jean Duclos
Augustin de Saint-Aubin
1774
French
1690–1700
French
1775–1800
Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]
Frey
19th century
British
ca. 1818
American or European
1845–49
American
1858–59
Maison Pingat
Emile Pingat
ca. 1864
Maison Pingat
Emile Pingat
ca. 1864
James McNeill Whistler
1883
American
ca. 1905
American
1700–1939
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Citation
Wallace, Carol, and Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.), eds. 1986. Dance: A Very Social History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Rizzoli.