Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian by Juliet Bellow

By Juliet Bellow

Modernism on degree restores Serge Diaghilev?s Ballets Russes to its vital function within the Parisian paintings global of the 1910s and Nineteen Twenties. in the course of these years, the Ballets Russes? level served as a dynamic discussion board for the interplay of inventive genres - dance, track and portray - in a mixed-media shape encouraged by way of Richard Wagner?s Gesamtkunstwerk (total paintings of art). This interdisciplinary examine combines a huge historical past of Diaghilev?s troupe with shut readings of 4 ballets designed through canonical modernist artists: Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, and Giorgio de Chirico. Experimental either in inspiration and shape, those productions redefine our realizing of the interconnected worlds of the visible and acting arts, elite tradition and mass leisure in Paris among the 2 global wars. This quantity lines the ways that artists operating with the Ballets Russes tailored painterly types to the temporal, 3-dimensional and corporeal medium of ballet. interpreting interactions between units, costumes, choreography, and musical accompaniment, the publication establishes what the Ballets Russes' productions appeared like and the way audiences reacted to them. Juliet Bellow brings dance to endure upon modernist paintings historical past as greater than a resource of images or decoration: she spotlights a fancy discussion between paintings types that didn't hinder yet quite greater artists? interrogation of the bounds of medium.

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