Waslaw Nijinsky

Joan Ross Acocella

Traces the Russian ballet dancer's descent into psychosis over six weeks in the winter of 1917-1918

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

Essays

Book Reports

Lauren B. Alloy

Current Perspectives

Abnormal Psychology

Richard R. Bootzin

Mark Morris

Mark Morris emerged in the 1980s as America's most exciting young choreographer. Two decades later, his position remains unchallenged. Morris was born in Seattle in 1956. His Mark Morris Dance Group began performing in New York in 1980. By the mid-eighties, PBS had aired an hour-long special on him, and his work was being presented by America's foremost ballet companies. Morris's dances are a mix of traditionalism and radicalism. They unabashedly address the great themes--love, grief, loneliness, religion, community--yet they are also lighthearted, irreverent, and scabrous. Joan Acocella's probing portrait is the first book on this brilliant and controversial artist. Written with Morris's cooperation, it describes how he has lived and how he turns life--and music and narrative--into dance. Including 78 photographs, Mark Morris provides an ideal introduction to the life and work of one of America's leading artists.

Carter Wiseman

The in-depth story of America's premier artists' residency program, published on its centennial anniversary.

The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007

A Place for the Arts

The Case of Nijinsky

Genius and Madness

Presents thirty-one essays reflecting on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of influential artists and saints, including Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Philip Roth, and Joan of Arc.

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints

Neil S. Jacobson

Presents current perspectives and research on all psychological disorders. This edition of the text features discussion on antisocial personality disorder, rape and domestic violence. A Groups at risk section highlights differences in prevalence by gender, race and socioeconomic status.

Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition rather than a firm political agenda.

Joan Ross Acocella

Books

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