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Mr. B - George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century
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Mr. B - George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century
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Loot Price R554
Discovery Miles 5 540
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George Balanchine did for dance what Picasso did for painting: he
changed the art and the way we see the human form. In this
magisterial cultural history, Jennifer Homans follows Balanchine
from his childhood in Tsarist St Petersburg, through the upheavals
of the Russian Revolution, two World Wars, and the cultural Cold
War, to New York, where he co-founded and ran the New York City
Ballet. His influences were myriad: he considered himself Georgian,
yet did not visit his ancestral homeland until his fifties; he was
deeply impressed by the grandeur and beauty of the Orthodox Church,
but equally absorbed by the new rhythms coming out of Harlem in the
1930s. He was part of the Russian avant-garde and excited by
surrealism and other artistic movements, collaborating broadly,
with figures like Matisse, Diaghilev and Stravinsky. Above all, he
was inspired by the young dancers he worked with, sculpting their
bodies even as they reshaped his imagination, often to the point of
romantic infatuation. Mr B. gathered around him successive
generations of people who believed in his artistic vision as
fervently as he did, and both the passions that animated him and
the difficulties of his life - personal losses, bouts of ill
health, and spiritual crises - resonate in his dances, which speak
poignantly of love, loss and mortality. With unprecedented access
to his papers and those who knew him, Homans tells a story of love
and exile; of colossal talent and the boundless energy it took to
reimagine dance. This is an epic portrait of one of the most
fascinating figures of the twentieth century.
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Imprint: |
Granta Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Jennifer Homans
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135mm (L x W) |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84708-775-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-84708-775-2 |
Barcode: |
9781847087751 |
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