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Isadora Duncan

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Poetry personified. She is not the Tenth Muse but all Nine Muses in one — and painting and sculpture as well.
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Laredo Taft, sculptor as quoted in Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship (1993) by Susan Rather, p. 124, also in "About Isadora Duncan" by Lori Belilove at the Isadora Duncan Dance Company

 
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