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100	1		_aLeontis, Artemis _95160 _eauthor
245	1	0	_aEva Palmer Sikelianos : _ba life in ruins / _cArtemis Leontis.
250			_a1st edition.
260			_aPrinceton ; _aOxford : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2019.
300			_axlvi, 339 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [301]-322) and index.
505	0		_aChapter 1: Sapphic Performances -- Chapter 2: Weaving -- Chapter 3: Patron of Byzantine Music -- Chapter 4: Drama -- Chapter 5: Writing -- Epilogue: Recollecting a life.
520			_a"This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer's most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renee Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn. Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death. Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist who one contemporary described as "the only ancient Greek I ever knew." -- Publisher's description.
600	1	0	_915231 _aPalmer-Sikelianou, Eua, _d1874-1952
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