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The Salon album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky
- Title
- The Salon album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky / edited and translated by John E. Bowlt.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Bowlt, John E.
- Description
- xxx, 114 pages, 136 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 30 cm
- Summary
- Before meeting Igor Stravinsky in 1921 in Paris, Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky (1888-1982) was already know as the "Muse of the Muses" in what had been the bohemian, intellectual life of St. Petersburg-Petrograd. Hers was the "Silver Age" of Russian culture, when symbolism reigned in the cabarets and the artistic process itself was a form of spontaneous celebration.
- As the habitues of this world fled the Bolsheviks, Vera, an artist and writer in her own right, managed to preserve their heritage in an extraordinary literary production: an album containing poems, sketches, fragments of music, and other dedications by some of the most influential Russian cultural figures of the day.
- The Album, which is reproduced here for the first time, is both a record of a cultural diaspora and a monument, in its very content and composition, to Russian culture during the Revolution.
- Alternative Title
- Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky
- Subject
- Note
- Includes a facsimile of the album with translation and commentary in English.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-102) and indexes.
- ISBN
- 0691044244 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 95010264
- OCLC
- 32167033
- ocm32167033
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries