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F. M.
- The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander,
Founder of the Alexander Technique
by Michael Bloch
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A new authoritative and meticulously researched biography by a professional biographer
Paperback £12.00
Hardback £19.00
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276 + xii pages, illustrated, index
Little, Brown, June 2004.
| "Michael Bloch has done the world a great service by writing this life of a man who deserves to be more widely acknowledged and celebrated."
From Colin Amery's review in Country Life, 19 August 2004, p. 86.
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| Mouritz mini review: |
| Alexander’s life story is exciting by any standards: from Tasmania to London, from elocution to an extraordinary innovative and effective method for health and self-development. This is a scholarly, well-researched and excellently written biography by a long-time pupil and professional biographer, Michael Bloch. In telling the story of the life and work of Alexander, Bloch conveys a sense of Alexander's personality and provides a psychological insight into the man behind the Technique. Bloch is not a teacher and so limits his comments on the Technique to a critical examination of Alexander's writings (he is not impressed) and contemporary reports by Alexander's pupils. Bloch’s attitude is respectful but not reverential. In the epilogue he examines whether Alexander qualifies as a ‘guru.’ This is a modern and highly readable biography which will appeal to teachers and pupils alike and which makes Alexander less enigmatic.(© 2004 Jean M. O. Fischer) |
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