Description: Diaghilev's Empire : How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World, Paperback by Christiansen, Rupert, ISBN 1250872537, ISBN-13 9781250872531, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph “Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” —Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen, a renowned dance critic and arts correspondent, presents a sweeping history of the Ballets Russes and of Serge Diaghilev’s dream of bringing Russian art and culture to the West. Serge Diaghilev, the Russian impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, is often said to have invented modern ballet. An art critic and connoisseur, Diaghilev had no training in dance or choreography, but he had a dream of bringing Russian art, music, design, and expression to the West and a mission to drive a cultural and artistic revolution. Bringing together such legendary talents as Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, this complex and visionary genius created a new form of ballet defined by artistic integrity, creative freedom, and an all-encompassing experience of art, movement, and music. The explosive color combinations, sensual and androgynous choreography, and experimental sounds of the Ballets Russes were called “barbaric” by the Parisian press, but its radical style usurped the entrenched mores of traditional ballet and transformed the European cultural sphere at large. Diaghilev’s Empire, the publication of which marks the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of Diaghilev’s birth, is a daring, impeccably researched reassessment of the phenomenon of the Ballets Russes and the Russian Revolution in twentieth-century art and culture. Rupert Christiansen, a leading dance critic, explores the fiery conflicts, outsize personalities, and extraordinary artistic innovations that make up this enduring story of triumph and disaster.
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Book Title: Diaghilev's Empire : How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: Dance / History & Criticism, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Dance / Classical & Ballet
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Author: Rupert Christiansen
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
