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The Ballets russes and the art of design / edited by Alston Purvis, Peter Rand, and Anna Winestein.

Title
The Ballets russes and the art of design / edited by Alston Purvis, Peter Rand, and Anna Winestein.
Publication
New York : Monacelli Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Purvis, Alston W., 1943-
  • Rand, Peter, 1942-
  • Winestein, Anna.
Description
208 p.; 33 cm.
Subject
  • Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924
  • Ballet > Costume
  • Ballet > Stage-setting and scenery
  • Ballet in art
  • Ballets russes > History
  • Costume design
  • Dance posters
  • Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929
Genre/Form
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Peter Rand -- Ch. 1. Designing dance / John E. Bowlt -- Ch. 2. The art of the backcloth / Sarah Woodcock -- Ch. 3. Ballets Russes costumes and the art of design / Sarah Woodcock -- Ch. 4. Hartford's historic evening / Eric Zafran -- Ch. 5. Graphic design in Ballets Russes poster art / Alston Purvis -- Ch. 6. Still dancing : photographs and postcards of the Ballets Russes / Anna Winestein -- Ch. 7. In his own voice : Diaghilev in the British Press / Lynn Garafola -- Ch. 8. The Dancing Museum / Eric Zafran -- Ch. 9. Collecting designs for the Ballets Russes / Nina and Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky.
ISBN
9781580932547
LCCN
^^2009016580