Working for Diaghilev

Working for Diaghilev PDF Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher: Exhibitions International
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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A large and beautifully produced catalogue of items included in the 2004 - 2005 exhibition Working for Diaghilev at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. It includes over 220 reproductions of paintings, drawings, designs, and costumes, and accompanying essays by Ada Raev, Sjeng Scheijen, Alexander Schouvaloff, and John E Bowlt.Catalog of exhibition held at the Groninger Museum, Dec. 11, 2004-Mar. 28, 2005.

Working for Diaghilev

Working for Diaghilev PDF Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher: Exhibitions International
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Book Description
A large and beautifully produced catalogue of items included in the 2004 - 2005 exhibition Working for Diaghilev at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. It includes over 220 reproductions of paintings, drawings, designs, and costumes, and accompanying essays by Ada Raev, Sjeng Scheijen, Alexander Schouvaloff, and John E Bowlt.Catalog of exhibition held at the Groninger Museum, Dec. 11, 2004-Mar. 28, 2005.

Working for Diaghilev

Working for Diaghilev PDF Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789076704852
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Diaghilev

Diaghilev PDF Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 184765245X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the Ballets Russes 100 years ago draws on important new research, notably from Russia. 'Scheijen masterfully recounts the phenomenal way in which Diaghilev contrived, under virtually impossible circumstances, to nurture a sequence of works ... he triumphs in making clear the degree to which, despite the cosmopolitanism of so much of the work, Russia was at the core of Diaghilev' Simon Callow, Guardian 'It's a fabulous, complicated, very sexy story and Sjeng Scheijen takes us through it with a steadying calm that fudges none of the outrage on or off stage' Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express 'Magnificent ... filled with extraordinary glamour' Rupert Christiansen, Daily Mail

Diaghilev

Diaghilev PDF Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199774455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569

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Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina, Fokine and Balanchine, and artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst, and Goncharova. An accomplished, flamboyant impresario of all the arts, Diaghilev became a legendary figure. Growing up in a minor noble family in remote Perm, he would become a central figure in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through bankruptcy, war, revolution, and exile. Furthermore he lived openly as a homosexual and his liaisons, most famously with Nijinsky, and his turbulent friendships with Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Prokofiev, and Jean Cocteau gave his life an exceptionally dramatic quality. Scheijen's magnificent biography, based on extensive research in little known archives, especially in Russia, brings fully to life a complex and powerful personality with boundless creative energy. A New York Times Editor's Choice

Diaghilev

Diaghilev PDF Author: Richard Buckle
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780297813774
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Biography of one of the central figures in the cultural life and tastes of his time.

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 PDF Author: Jane Pritchard
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851778355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This book was published to coincide with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 25 September 2010-9 January 2011"--Title page verso.

Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev

Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev PDF Author: StephenD. Press
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351553054
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Ballet impresario Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev and composer Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev are eminent figures in twentieth-century cultural history, yet this is the first detailed account of their fifteen-year collaboration. The beginning was not trouble-free, but despite two false starts (Ala i Lolli and the first version of its successor, Chout) Diaghilev maintained his confidence in the composer. With his guidance and encouragement Prokofiev established his mature balletic style. After some years of estrangement during which Prokofiev wrote for choreographer Boris Romanov and conductor/publisher Serge Koussevitsky, Diaghilev came to the composer's rescue at a low point in his Western career. The impresario encouraged Prokofiev's turn towards 'a new simplicity' and offered him a great opportunity for career renewal with a topical ballet on Soviet life (Le Pas d'acier). Even as late as 1928-29 Diaghilev compelled Prokofiev to achieve new heights of expressivity in his characterizations (L'Enfant prodigue). Although Western scholars have investigated Prokofiev's operas, piano works, and symphonies, little attention has been paid to his early ballets written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Despite Prokofiev's devotion to opera, it was his ballets for Diaghilev as much as his concertos and solo piano works that earned his renown in Western Europe in the 1920s. Stephen D. Press discusses the genesis of each ballet, including the important contributions of the scenic designers (Mikhail Larionov, Georgy Yakulov and Georges Rouault) and the choreographer/dancers (L?id Massine, Serge Lifar and George Balanchine), and the special relationship between the ballets' progenitors.

Speaking of Diaghilev

Speaking of Diaghilev PDF Author: John Drummond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571195497
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Diaghilev was a prime mover in the strand of modernism in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, encouraging the extraordinary explosion of energy from artists such as Stravinsky, Debussy, Picasso, Fokine, Cocteau, Satie and Nijinsky.

Ballets Russes Style

Ballets Russes Style PDF Author: Mary E. Davis
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 186189757X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Beautifully illustrated and drawing on unpublished images and memorabilia, this book illuminates the ways in which innovations by the Ballets Russes in dance, music, sets and costume both mirrored and invigorated contemporary culture. --Book Jacket.

Diaghilev

Diaghilev PDF Author: Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Published on the occasion of the Exhibition at the Barbican Art Centre, 25 January-14 April 1996.