Author: Art Association of Montreal Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781391371511 Category : Languages : en Pages : 28
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Excerpt from Special Exhibition of the Work of Léon Bakst: December 17th, 1914 It was our privilege to be prewnt when Rakst ulnainetl his real introduction at the Thefitredn Chfuelet in june, 1909. From the moment when the curtain arose to the music which Arens'ky had written for the artist's ballet Cleopatre, until the amorous queen's galley glided down the river with its precious burden, there was never a false note struck. The settings were built upon extremely simple lines a vast Egyptian hall surrounded by mamive colnntns between which you caught glimpses of the glistening sapphire Nile. The prevailing color was a brilliant orange. And the great stones, which seem to have absorbed the golden sunlight, suggested deserts of glittering powdered sand outside. -t wae what one mightexpeet from the artist who afterward told us that he conceived a stage setting primarily not as a landscape or as architecture, hut as though it were a painting into which the human figures had not yet been painted. From each setting, he con tinned, l discard the entire range of nuances which do not amplify or intensity the hidden spirit of the table. Add to this the fact that the composer, the. Maitre dr build, the stage decorator, the dancers and mimes were all of the same race working in harmony, and you will not be sur prised at the artistic unity of the production. The com posers orchestrated for the ears, Bakst for the eyes. The inimitable interpreters were Pavlowa, dainty and divine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Jeffrey Brooks Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108484468 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 349
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A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Author: Pavel Florensky Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1861896395 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 396
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Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician – and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky’s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta Misler. Beyond Vision reveals Florensky’s fundamental attitudes to the vital questions of construction, composition, chronology, function and destination in the fields of painting, sculpture and design. His reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world, but this first collection in English of his art essays (translated by Wendy Salmond) will be a revelation to those in the field. Pavel Florensky was a true polymath: trained in mathematics and philosophy at Moscow University, he rejected a scholarship in advanced mathematics in order to study theology at the Moscow Theological Academy. He was also an expert linguist, scientist and art historian. A victim of the Soviet government’s animosity towards religion, he was condemned to a Siberian labor camp in 1933 where he continued his work under increasingly difficult circumstances. He was executed in 1937.
Author: John E. Bowlt Publisher: ISBN: 9780500293058 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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A major resource, collecting essays, articles, manifestos, and works of art by Russian artists and critics in the early twentieth century, available again at the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Author: Léon Bakst Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art, Modern Languages : en Pages : 258
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Scarce original English-language edition printed in Austria & published in Russia/USSR (commissioned by the renowned Aurora Art based in St. Petersburg), beautifully illustrated throughout on glossy paper. Many subsequent publications on Bakst issued by various American/Western European publishers are based on this very edition.
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