Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde
- Author: Bellow, Juliet
a comprehensive, densely argued examination of the Ballets Russes in its relation to French avant-garde art... Summing Up: Recommended —
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction: the Ballets Russes and the Parisian avant-garde
- Staging modernism: the Ballets Russes from Scheherazade to Le Sacre du printemps
- Moving pictures: Pablo Picasso and Parade
- Fashioning new women: Sonia Delaunay and CleopActre
- Disorienting decoration: Henri Matisse and Le Chant du rossignol
- Animated stones: Giorgio de Chirico and Le Bal
- Conclusion: afterlives of the Ballets Russes: modernism and the total artwork
- Selected bibliography
- Index.