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MERCE CUNNINGHAM: AFTER THE ARBITRARY by Carrie Noland. 2020. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 304 pp., 17 color plates, 54 halftones. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780226541242. DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226541389.001.0001.

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MERCE CUNNINGHAM: AFTER THE ARBITRARY by Carrie Noland. 2020. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 304 pp., 17 color plates, 54 halftones. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780226541242. DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226541389.001.0001.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2021

Jessica Friedman*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Dance Studies Association

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