Phaidon Book of the Ballet
Author | : Riccardo Mezzanotte |
Publisher | : Oxford : Phaidon |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Riccardo Mezzanotte |
Publisher | : Oxford : Phaidon |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter. f. 1914 Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Ballet |
ISBN | : 9780014820429 |
Author | : Robert Ignatius Letellier |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1443800805 |
The composer Ludwig Minkus represents one of music’s biggest mysteries. Who was he? Hardly anything is known about him, and yet he occupied an influential position in the theatres of the Imperial ballet in late nineteenth-century Russia. He has been recognised as a predecessor of Tchaikovsky, but as a musician is commonly held to have been so feeble as to be beneath contempt. Yet despite the scorn heaped on him, and his consequent obscurity, Minkus is far from being forgotten. Since the early 1960s his name has slowly begun to re-surface. Two works, Don Quixote (1869) and La Bayadère (1877), have been presented in their entirety for the first time to new audiences all over the world. The musical and dramatic power of both ballets has taken people by surprise. The stories have a very real human appeal, the choreography attracts the admiration of balletomanes, and the music, with its rhythm, verve, and beauty of melody, holds attention and engages the heart wherever it is heard. This introduction seeks to discover something more behind the blank façade of Minkus’s life and work. What do we actually know about him as a man and as an artist? Are we able to apprehend his oeuvre as a whole, and how much can we establish from the available material? What is the nature of the music he created for those few works that have survived the years, and that have come to the fore again recently to delight those who have ears to hear? This study includes iconography from the life and times of the composer, many musical examples from his works, and a comprehensive bibliography and discography.
Author | : Mark Edward Perugini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Ballet |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Hammer |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780714861333 |
The art of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) epitomises the angst at the heart of the modern human condition. His dramatic images of screaming figures and distorted anatomies are painted with a richly gestural technique, alluding to such old masters as Titian, Velázquez and Rembrandt. Displaying repressed and raw emotion, his body of work includes portraits of Lucian Freud and John Deakin.
Author | : William Hall |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780714879253 |
Stone is a fascinating, fresh and insightful global tour of the world's oldest and most beautiful building material Featuring more than 170 structures, from prehistory through to today, the book includes an incredible range of buildings: awe-inspiring Neolithic monuments and the epic Pyramids of Giza feature alongside the work of twentieth-century icons, from Mies van der Rohe's seminal Barcelona Pavilion to Marcel Breuer's daring Met building in New York. There are also projects by the world's best contemporary architects, from Snøhetta's angular Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo to Kengo Kuma's sculptural Chokkura Plaza in Japan and David Chipperfield's geometric Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Arranged to promote comparison and discussion, each project includes an extended caption providing a perceptive commentary on the building. An elegant and informative visual exploration, Stone demonstrates the remarkable variety of creative and innovative structures the material has inspired around the world.
Author | : Germaine Prudhommeau |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780130798978 |
Author | : Nato Thompson |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780714869490 |
The first major and in-depth retrospective monograph on JR, the enigmatic and anonymous Parisian photographer/street artist/activist behind some of the world's most provocative large-scale public photography projects. Created in close collaboration with JR, this book includes all bodies of his work, his collaborations with other artists and institutions such as the New York Ballet and previously unpublished behind-the-scenes documentation of his studios in Paris and New York, where he and his creative collaborators live and work. Introducing JR 's story is a specially commissioned graphic novel by comic artist Joseph Remnant, which charts his rise from graffiti roots and his decision to become a full-time artist. Features a survey essay by Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time, New York.
Author | : Giacomo Meyerbeer |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780838638453 |
Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism. It contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780714867403 |
Renowned for his vivid, larger‐than‐life portraits, Alex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting. His work can be found in institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, LACMA, and the National Portrait Gallery. The revised and expanded edition of Phaidon’s landmark survey is the most up‐to‐date overview of Katz’s prolific 50‐year career. Featuring more than 300 gorgeous reproductions of key works, Alex Katz devotes ample space to the artist’s lush portraits while also including his landscapes, sculptures, and painted books. Rounding out the book’s content are writings from the artist himself; contributions from Robert Storr, Iwona Blazwick, Carter Ratcliff; and a new essay by Barry Schwabsky.