Item #138858 The Ballets Russes and Its World. Lynn Garafola, Eds Nancy Van Norman Baer.
The Ballets Russes and Its World
The Ballets Russes and Its World

The Ballets Russes and Its World

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Navy and tan cloth covers; color-illustrated dj; viii, 420 pages : illustrations (32 color plates and numerous bw illustrations and photos. VG/G. DJ has bvumping and wear, inside page has previous owner info. Item #138858
ISBN: 0300061765

"Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909-1929) left its mark on virtually every aspect of the fine and performing arts in the West. The artists who worked with the Ballets Russes - among them Stravinsky, Picasso, Matisse, Nijinsky, Prokofiev, and Balanchine - made the company a force in defining the avant-garde in the early part of the century. This illustrated book surveys the dance, art, music, and cultural worlds of the Ballets Russes."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Diaghilev. The Diaghilev family in Perm / Evgenia Egorova ; Diaghilev's musical education / Israel Nesteev ; Early writings of Serge Diaghilev / edited, translated, and with an introduction by John E. Bowlt ; Diaghilev's "Complicated questions" / edited and with an introduction by Joan Acocella -- Tradition and innovation. Isadora Duncan and prewar Russian dancemakers / Elizabeth Souritz ; Firebird and the idea of Russianness / Sally Banes ; Fernand Léger and the Ballets Russes : an unconsummated collaboration / Judi Freeman ; Classicism and neoclassicism / David Vaughan ; Bringing Les noces to the stage / Drue Fergison ; Diaghilev and Stravinsky / Charles M. Joseph -- Influence and afterlife. Adolph Bolm in America / Suzanne Carbonneau ; Reconfiguring the sexes / Lynn Garafola ; In British eyes / compiled by Lynn Garafola ; In his image : Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Nancy Reynolds -- Appendix. Operas and ballets produced by Serge Diaghilev / compiled by Lynn Garafola.

OCLC: 40359382

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