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| Laurie Simmons Painted Ballet (Les Sylphides) 1983 C-print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Alexey Brodovitch Les Sylphides ca. 1935-37 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Weston Veil Dance ca. 1916 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Cecil Beaton L'Errante (ballet by George Balanchine) ca. 1933 gelatin silver print Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Carl Van Vechten Alicia Markova as Giselle ca. 1955-60 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Norbert Bittner Forest Scene with Four Figures Dancing before 1851 watercolor Morgan Library, New York |
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| Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder after Salomon Gessner Danse des Jeunes Garçons 1806 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Carl Paul Jennewein Greek Dance 1926 bronze statuette Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Barbara Hepworth Ballet: Giselle 1950 drawing Government Art Collection, London |
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| Emil Otto Hoppé Tamara Karsavina with Adolf Bolm in Le Pavillon d'Armide (Ballets Russes) 1911 photogravure Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Greek Culture in South Italy Woman Dancing 3rd century BC terracotta statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Arnold Genthe Stella Bloch dancing on the Beach 1919 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Louis Fleckenstein Rose Dance of the South ca. 1916 hand-colored gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Adolf Fassbender Dance of the Bubbles 1948 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Dancers 1898 lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Arthur Bowen Davies Fantasy of Nymphs ca. 1900 watercolor Detroit Institute of Arts |
from Veil
The doll told me
to exist.
It said, "Hypnotize yourself."
It said time would be
transfixed.
*
Now the optimist
sees an oak
shiver
and a girl whiz by
on a bicycle
with a sense of pleasurable
suspense.
She budgets herself
with leafy
prestidigitation.
I too
am a segmentalist.
*
But I've dropped
more than an armful
of groceries or books . . .
– Rae Armantrout (2001)