Dancer, choreographer and teacher, she ranks with such 20th-century artists as Picasso, Stravinsky and Joyce, who broke moulds and created new forms of expression. Martha Graham has been called the most important and influential American artist ever born. She tells of her continual struggle against poverty and adversity, to create works of power, eroticism and love. Illustrated with over 100 photographs, many from her own collection, her autobiography contains portraits of the extraordinary artists whom she knew, and with whom she worked. This is Martha Graham's own account of her singular life and career, which spans the century. Macmillan, 279 pp., £20, March 1992, 1 9 The death of Martha Graham on 1 April 1991, a little more than a month before her 97 th birthday, finally permitted Agnes DeMille to publish her biography of the dancer, after nearly twenty-five years of work and four years of waiting.
Dancer, choreographer and teacher, she ranks with such. Blood Memory: An Autobiography by Martha Graham. For a while I was reading this concurrently with Blood Memory, Martha Graham’s autobiography. She possessed a great gift for revealing emotion through dance, expressing beliefs and telling stories in an utterly new way. She tells of her continual struggle against poverty and adversity, to create works of power, eroticism and love. Martha Graham, the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer, revolutionized the world of modern dance. Like her dances, her book 'Blood Memory'. This is Martha Graham's own account of her singular life and career, which spans the century. Five months after her death in April at the age of 96, Martha Graham has given the world a masterly, buoyant legacy of her life and her art.
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