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Diaghilev: A Life
Diaghilev: A Life
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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, Diaghilev became a legendary figure. Growing up in a minor noble family in remote Perm, he would become a central figure in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through
bankruptcy, war, revolution, and exile. Furthermore he lived openly as a homosexual and his liaisons, most famously with Nijinsky, and his turbulent friendships with Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Prokofiev, and Jean Cocteau gave his life an exceptionally dramatic quality. Scheijen's magnificent
biography, based on extensive research in little known archives, especially in Russia, brings fully to life a complex and powerful personality with boundless creative energy.
A New York Times Editor's Choice
Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780199751495
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/12/2010
Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 86
Booklist 09/15/2010 pg. 13
New Yorker (The) 09/20/2010 pg. 82
New York Times Book Review 09/26/2010 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 10/03/2010 pg. 30
New York Review of Books 01/13/2011 pg. 24
Choice 02/01/2011
and Karsavina, Fokine and Balanchine, and artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst, and Goncharova. An accomplished, flamboyant impresario of all the arts, Diaghilev became a legendary figure. Growing up in a minor noble family in remote Perm, he would become a central figure in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through
bankruptcy, war, revolution, and exile. Furthermore he lived openly as a homosexual and his liaisons, most famously with Nijinsky, and his turbulent friendships with Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Prokofiev, and Jean Cocteau gave his life an exceptionally dramatic quality. Scheijen's magnificent
biography, based on extensive research in little known archives, especially in Russia, brings fully to life a complex and powerful personality with boundless creative energy.
A New York Times Editor's Choice
Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780199751495
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/12/2010
Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 86
Booklist 09/15/2010 pg. 13
New Yorker (The) 09/20/2010 pg. 82
New York Times Book Review 09/26/2010 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 10/03/2010 pg. 30
New York Review of Books 01/13/2011 pg. 24
Choice 02/01/2011
About the Author
Sjeng Scheijen is a Senior Research Fellow and Veni-laureate at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He is a historian of Russian art, an exhibition curator, and a former cultural attaché at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Moscow.
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