The Diary Of Vaslav Nijinsky

Author : Waslaw Nijinsky,Vaslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1968-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520009452

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Waslaw Nijinsky,Vaslaw Nijinsky Pdf

00 Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius.

Author : Vaslaw Nijinsky,Waslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ballet dancers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaslaw Nijinsky,Waslaw Nijinsky Pdf

Author : Vaslav Nijinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:29111023

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaslav Nijinsky Pdf

Author : Vaslav Nijinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0374526850

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaslav Nijinsky Pdf

The astonishing, legendary diaries of the great dancer, complete and unexpurgated In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot written account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis. Nijinsky's diary was first published in 1936, in a heavily bowdlerized version that omitted almost half of his text. The present edition, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, is the first complete version in English and the first version in any language to include the fourth notebook, which was written at the very edge of madness. It contains Nijinsky's last lucid thoughts--on God, sex, war, and the nature of the universe, as well as on his own broken life. In her Introduction, the noted dance writer Joan Acocella explains the context of the diary and its place in the history of modernism.

Author : Vaclav F. Nižinskij
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916212645

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaclav F. Nižinskij Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469385103

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Anonim Pdf

Author : Waslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : London : Panther
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Ballet dancers
ISBN : LCCN:66077424

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Waslaw Nijinsky Pdf

Author : Joan R. Acocella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788197770

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Joan R. Acocella Pdf

In Dec. 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife & daughter & started to go insane. This diary, which he kept in 4 notebooks over 6 weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis. Nijinsky had come to fame as the principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. When madness struck, he began to image himself as God. He lived another 30 years, but he never regained his sanity. The present edition is the complete version in English, & the first version in any language to include the 4th notebook, written at the very edge of psychosis. Almost unbearable to read.Ó Illustrations.

Author : Kevin Kopelson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0804729492

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The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky by Kevin Kopelson Pdf

This is three books in one: an impressionistic account (based on the aestheticism of Walter Pater) of the dancer's homoerotic career, a deconstructive analysis of his gay male reception (drawn from the semiotics of Roland Barthes), and an exploration of the limitations of that analysis.

Author : Peter F. Ostwald
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1861052502

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Vaslav Nijinsky by Peter F. Ostwald Pdf

That Nijinsky was a genius is rarely disputed. He was the most adulated virtuoso in ballet history. His electrifying performances became legendary, and his controversial choreographies caused an uproar in the sedate theaters of Paris and London. However his exceptional talent was overshadowed by violent outbursts and periods of deep depression which led to great friction in his professional relationships, his homosexual personal relationships were also fiery and obsessive and the cause of much scandal, his marriage was also stormy and discordant, and many of his later years were spent in asylums. His two children, Kyra and Tamara, have requested author Peter Ostwald, a professor of psychiatry, to study Nijinsky's notebooks, his wife's correspondence, medical and other hospital documents and to write this compelling biography to tell what really happened. It sheds new light on a life that has fascinated generations.

Author : Richard Buckle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639360550

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Nijinsky by Richard Buckle Pdf

The intoxicating story of one of the greatest dancers in the history of ballet?and the paradox of his profound genius and descent into madness. Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The Rite of Spring provoked riots when performed and are now regarded as the foundation of modern dance. Through his liaison with the great impresario Diaghilev, he worked with the artistic elite of the time. During the fabulous Diaghilev years he lived in an atmosphere of perpetual hysteria, glamor, and intrigue. Then, in 1913, he married a Hungarian aristocrat, Romola de Pulszky, and was abruptly dismissed from the Ballet Russe. Five years later, he was declared insane. The fabulous career as the greatest dancer who ever lived was over. Drawing on countless people who knew and worked with Nijinsky, Richard Buckle has written the definitive biography of the legendary dancer.

Author : Lucy Moore
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847658289

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Nijinsky by Lucy Moore Pdf

'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre. Immersed in the world of dance from his childhood, he found his natural home in the Imperial Theatre and the Ballets Russes, he had a powerful sponsor in Sergei Diaghilev - until a dramatic and public failure ended his career and set him on a route to madness. As a dancer, he was acclaimed as godlike for his extraordinary grace and elevation, but the opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring saw furious brawls between admirers of his radically unballetic choreography and horrified traditionalists. Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. 'I am alive' he wrote in his diary, 'and so I suffer'. In the first biography for forty years, Lucy Moore examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy, which tells us much about both genius and madness. This is the full story of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, comparable to the work of Rosamund Bartlett or Sjeng Scheijen.

Author : Romola Nijinsky (editor)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9120006829

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Romola Nijinsky (editor) Pdf

Author : Joan Acocella
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307389275

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28 Artists & 2 Saints by Joan Acocella Pdf

Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband’s suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading on the making of art—and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.

Author : Richard Buckle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Ballet dancers
ISBN : 1605985147

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Nijinsky by Richard Buckle Pdf

Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The Rite of Spring provoked riots when performed and are now regarded as the foundation of modern dance.Through his liaison with the great impresario Diaghilev, he worked with the artistic elite of the time. During the fabulous Diaghilev years he lived in an atmosphere of perpetual hysteria, glamor, and intrigue. Then, in 1913, he married a Hungarian aristocrat, Romola de Pulszky, and was abruptly dismissed from the Ballet Russe. Five years later, he was declared insane. The fabulous career as the greatest dancer who ever lived was over.Drawing on countless people who knew and worked with Nijinsky, Richard Buckle has written the definitive biography of the legendary dancer.