The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608683664 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joseph Campbell (1904 – 1987) is widely credited with bringing mythology to a mass audience. . Dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Nancy Allison is the artistic director of Jean Erdman Dance. His works, including The Masks of God and The Hero with a Thousand Faces are bona
“Campbell has become one of the rarest intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker embraced by popular culture.” Newsweek“In our generation the mythographer who has had the fullest command of the huge scholarly literature, the analytic ability, the lucid prose, and the needed staying power has been Joseph Campbell.” Commentary
Many know Joseph Campbell as the charming, erudite, best-professor-you-ever-had figure chatting with Bill Moyers in the The Power of Myth series. The Ecstasy of Being is a prime example. Modern dance was the profession of Campbell’s wife, Jean Erdman, and the project the pair collaborated on when Campbell retired from teaching and the couple formed their Theater of the Open Eye. But Campbell’s posthumously published Collected Works (500,000 copies sold) reveal a perhaps unsuspected range of interests and knowledge. In these writings Campbell explores the rise of modern art and dance in the 20th century; delves into the work and philosophy of Isadora Duncan; and, as ever, probes the idea of art “as the funnel through which spirit is poured into life.”