Thereafter, they left for Paris, where Duncan was introduced to the Louvre’s collection of Greek vases and their iconography. Courtesy of Barbara Kane.) Isadora Duncan Goes to Europe (Duncan, Original Notebook from the Arnold Rood Collection, n.d., Special Collections, Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, without pagination. They arrived in London the summer of 1899, where Duncan, then age 22, immersed herself every day for four months in the vast holdings of the British Museum. Roman, 1866).ĭuncan’s family moved often, eventually traveling across America and then to Europe. However, even in absentia, he prophetically heralded Duncan’s formative concepts of a Greek sensibility through his published poem, “Intaglio: Lines on a Beautiful Greek Antique,” in which he wrote, “Greece is living Greece once more.” (Duncan, Art of the Dance, 144 quoting Bret Harte, ed., Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse. Her father, Joseph Duncan, a banker-aesthete, abandoned the family when Duncan was quite young. Her mother, Dora Angela Duncan, a self-educated cultured woman, provided her four children with classical underpinnings that instilled a love and respect for art and language and a reverence for the past. Isadora Duncan’s Early Life in Californiaīorn in California in 1877, Duncan’s childhood was as chaotic as it was sublime.
than to transform his own children into living works of art." There is no more simple and direct means than to give art to the people. "Every child that is born in civilization has a right to a heritage of beauty.
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