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Diaghilev - A Life (Hardcover)
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Diaghilev - A Life (Hardcover)
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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
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