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Dance: A Very Social History

Dance: A Very Social History

Wallace, Carol McD., Don McDonagh, Jean L. Druesedow, Laurence Libin, and Constance Old

1986

128 pages

158 illustrations

This title is out of print.

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Table of contents

About the authors

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

Dance dress, Lucile Ltd., New York American, silk, metal thread, glass, horsehair, cotton, American — Dance dress
1914–29

Les Apprets du Bal, from Les Bals Masqués, plate 4

Multiple artists/makers

ca. 1840

After the Ball, Alfred Stevens Belgian, Oil on canvas — After the Ball
1874

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, Rudolph Ackermann, London British, Illustrations: etching, engraving, aquatint, woodcut, hand-coloring, fabric samples — The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics
1809–28

La Galope, published in L'Artiste, first series, volume V, 1833

Multiple artists/makers

1833

Contre-Danses Françoises

18th century

The Life of Montmartre

1899

Jitterbug, Lou Barlow American, Wood engraving — Jitterbug
1939

Le Bal Paré, Antoine Jean Duclos French, Proof with etching and engraving; second state of four (Bocher) — Le Bal Paré
1774

Shoes, silk, leather, French — Shoes
French
1690–1700

Robe à la française, silk, French — Robe à la française
French
1775–1800

Toilette du Soir, plate 118 from "La Mode"

19th century

Evening dress, silk, British — Evening dress
British
ca. 1818

Evening dress, silk, wool, American or European — Evening dress
American or European
1845–49

Evening dress, silk, American — Evening dress
American
1858–59

Ball gown, Maison Pingat French, silk, French — Ball gown
ca. 1864

Ball gown, Maison Pingat French, silk, French — Ball gown
ca. 1864

Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret, James McNeill Whistler American, Oil on canvas, American — Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret
1883

Boa, silk, American — Boa
American
ca. 1905

Fan, shell, American — Fan
American
1700–1939

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Wallace, Carol, and Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.), eds. 1986. Dance: A Very Social History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Rizzoli.