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Author : Lincoln Kirstein
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Ballet dancing
ISBN : UCSC:32106014566068
Author : Jennifer Homans
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812984781
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, and the Kirkus Prize • Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels New York Times Editors’ Choice • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oprah Daily Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B.
Author : Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Art, British
ISBN : OXFORD:555028528
Author : Andrew Halliday Duff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600059440
Author : Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691165271
How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern history A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn’t always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers—not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles shows how the practice developed in response to the conditions of the modern art world and how titles have shaped the reception of artwork from the time of Bruegel and Rembrandt to the present. Ruth Bernard Yeazell begins the story with the decline of patronage and the rise of the art market in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as the increasing circulation of pictures and the democratization of the viewing public generated the need for a shorthand by which to identify works at a far remove from their creation. The spread of literacy both encouraged the practice of titling pictures and aroused new anxieties about relations between word and image, including fears that reading was taking the place of looking. Yeazell demonstrates that most titles composed before the nineteenth century were the work of middlemen, and even today many artists rely on others to name their pictures. A painter who wants a title to stick, Yeazell argues, must engage in an act of aggressive authorship. She investigates prominent cases, such as David’s Oath of the Horatii and works by Turner, Courbet, Whistler, Magritte, and Jasper Johns. Examining Western painting from the Renaissance to the present day, Picture Titles sheds new light on the ways that we interpret and appreciate visual art.
Author : University College, London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015065864145
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555014840
Author : Frank Bellew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027001966
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030035556366
Author : Frank Bellew
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547090762
'The Art of Amusing' is a collection of graceful arts, merry games, and odd tricks, intended to amuse everybody, and enable all to amuse everybody else. Full of suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, charades, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Governors
ISBN : WISC:89076957158
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Museums
ISBN : PRNC:32101064158080
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Photography
ISBN : WISC:89057183048
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1696 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11506554
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79375350