Wendy Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 6185570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER W |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2347-2356 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women Making Art
Aaron Douglas and Katherine Dunham
Aaron Douglas and Katherine Dunham were pioneers in setting a definitive course for African American artistic expression in the first half of the twentieth century. Their innovative positions revolved around the reclamation and integration of African and African diasporic sources into their work, which established the foundation for a new respect for African cultural inheritance. The two artists pursued this goal through their individual research…
Reading the Ballerina's Body
In September of 2003, Bolshoi Ballet dancer and media star Anastasia Volochkova, 27, was fired from her job. The main reason given was that at 5′7′′ and 110 lbs., she was too tall and too heavy for her partners to lift. Yekaterina Norikova, spokeswoman for the Bolshoi, said: “The problem is that male dancers complained of her height and weight and refused to dance with her” (quoted in Isachenkov 2003). Yevgeny Ivanchenko, her former partner, publ…
Reading the Ballerina's Body
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Aaron Douglas and Katherine Dunham
Aaron Douglas and Katherine Dunham were pioneers in setting a definitive course for African American artistic expression in the first half of the twentieth century. Their innovative positions revolved around the reclamation and integration of African and African diasporic sources into their work, which established the foundation for a new respect for African cultural inheritance. The two artists pursued this goal through their individual research…
Reading the Ballerina's Body
In September of 2003, Bolshoi Ballet dancer and media star Anastasia Volochkova, 27, was fired from her job. The main reason given was that at 5′7′′ and 110 lbs., she was too tall and too heavy for her partners to lift. Yekaterina Norikova, spokeswoman for the Bolshoi, said: “The problem is that male dancers complained of her height and weight and refused to dance with her” (quoted in Isachenkov 2003). Yevgeny Ivanchenko, her former partner, publ…
Reading the Ballerina's Body
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Aaron Douglas and Katherine Dunham
Aaron Douglas and Katherine Dunham were pioneers in setting a definitive course for African American artistic expression in the first half of the twentieth century. Their innovative positions revolved around the reclamation and integration of African and African diasporic sources into their work, which established the foundation for a new respect for African cultural inheritance. The two artists pursued this goal through their individual research…
Women Making Art
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