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Modernism on stage : the Ballets Russes and the Parisian avant-garde

Title
Modernism on stage : the Ballets Russes and the Parisian avant-garde / Juliet Bellow.
Author
Bellow, Juliet.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.

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Description
xviii, 280 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Ballets russes
  • Ballets Russes
  • Artists and theater
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Paris > 20th century
  • Avantgarde
  • Theater
  • Kulturleben
  • Paris
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian avant-garde -- 1. Staging modernism: the Ballets Russes from Schéhérazade to Le Sacre du printemps -- 2. Moving pictures: Pablo Picasso and Parade -- 3. Fashioning New Women: Sonia Delaunay and Cléopâtre -- 4. Disorienting decoration: Henri Matisse and Le Chant du rossignol -- 5. Animated stones: Giorgio de Chirico and Le Bal -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Ballets Russes: modernism and the total artwork.
ISBN
  • 9781409409113 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1409409112 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2012025014
  • 99954508099
OCLC
  • ocn855360857
  • 855360857
  • SCSB-5699227
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries