Diaghilev: A Life

by Sjeng Scheijen

Book Overview

Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina, Fokine and Balanchine, and artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst, and Goncharova.

An accomplished, flamboyant impresario of all the arts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199751498
• ISBN13: 9780199751495
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.2" x 10.0"