Diaghilev - A Life (Hardcover)

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.
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General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2010
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	Sjeng Scheijen
Dimensions:	254 x 183 x 48mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound / Paper over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	560
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-975149-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Dance > Ballet Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of other lands Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
LSN:	0-19-975149-8
Barcode:	9780199751495

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