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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