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1 online resource (vii, 552 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-517) and index. |
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Contents; Translators' Note; Introduction: Death in Venice; 1 A Big Head, 18721880; 2 The Fruits of Enlightenment, 18791890; 3 Rise and Fall, 18901891; 4 Student Years: A Visit to Tolstoy, 18911893; 5 Student Years: Alexandre Benois, 18901894; 6 'The Serge Diaguileff Museum': St Petersburg, Rome, Genoa, Paris, 18941896; 7 Charlatan and Charmer, 18951898; 8 'I'm full of big plans!', 18971898; 9 The World of Art, 18981900; 10 The Sylvia Debacle, 19001902; 11 The Hour of Reckoning, 19021905; 12 The 'Homosexual Clique', 19061907; 13 Tsar Boris and Tsar Sergey, 19071908. |
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14 The Rise of the Ballets Russes, 1908190915 Bakst and the Art of Seduction, 19091910; 16 Emergence of a Genius, 19101911; 17 Petrushka, 19111912; 18 Prelude to a Scandal, 19111912; 19 A Year of Risky Experiments, 19121913; 20 Time of Troubles, 19131914; 21 'Let us be resolute and energetic', 19141915; 22 A Parade of Revolutions, 19151917; 23 A Letter from Nouvel, 19171919; 24 To the Brink of Catastrophe, 19191922; 25 A Li. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929.
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Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929. |
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Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929. |
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Ballet dancers -- Russia -- Biography.
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Ballet dancers. |
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Russia. |
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Impresarios -- Russia -- Biography.
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Impresarios. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Sergej Diaghilev. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scheijen, Sjeng. Diaghilev. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009 9780199751495 (DLC) 2010002205 (OCoLC)503594710 |
| ISBN |
9780199774456 (electronic book) |
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0199774455 (electronic book) |
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9780199751495 (alkaline paper) |
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0199751498 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613269966 |
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