Titles
- Moscow And St. Petersburg 1900-1920
- Moscow & Saint Petersburg 1900-1920
Attribution
John E. BowltPublication Details
BookVendome Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NX556.A1 B678 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN) New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Bowlt?s richly textured volume focuses not only on Russia?s best known artists from this period?Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova and poet Anna Akhmatova?but also on lesser known movements of the period?experimental theater, Nikolai Kalmakov?s innovative painting, and the free dance practiced by followers of Duncan and Dalcroze. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- A double-headed eagle : Russia, land of paradox
- Azure heights, sapphire depths : philosophical concepts of the Russian silver age
- The shock of the new : technology, science, engineering
- The style moderne : Russian refractions of art nouveau
- The world of art : Sergei Diaghilev and his circle
- Flowers, flowers to cover the tomb! : blooms of decadence
- Body art : ballet, theater, cabaret, nudism
- Aesthetes and barbarians : Apollo and the suicide of art
- The year 1913 : crossroads of past and future
- Apocalypse now : war, revolution, and cultural centrifuge
ISBN
- 0865651914
- 9780865651913
- 0865651841
- 9780865651845
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