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A Feast of Wonders: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes by John E. Bowlt, Zelfira Tregulova and Nathalie Rosticher Giordano (eds)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
In May, 1909 Sergei Diaghilev astonished the world of dance with his first ballet presentations in Paris which demonstrated an unprecedented combination of vitality and grace, originality and technical sophistication. As a primary axis of Diaghilevs activities during the life of the company known as the ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design: 1880-1930 by John E. Bowlt
$225.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Furthermore, through their daring inventions, Russian artists of the first thirty years of the 20th century transformed, profoundly and permanently, our perception of stage design - and hence of the theatre. They belonged to an extraordinarily creative generation of impresarios, dancers, actors, patrons ...Show more
Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
This book focuses on the visual and material culture of St Petersburg and Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance that left a profound imprint on the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous perhaps ...Show more
Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age: 1900 - 1920 by John E. Bowlt
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
The history of Russia has seesawed through the centuries between Europe and Asia. In this dichotomy, St. Petersburg looked west and Moscow looked east. Power moved between the two cities; the Tsars were crowned in Moscow yet ruled from St Petersburg. But at the turn of the 20th century, just before Tsar ...Show more
The Russian Avant-Garde, Siberia and the East by John E. Bowlt
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book is devoted to the complex relationship between Russian art and the East--be it the Russian East or the Far East--with special focus on the radical artists who shaped the development of modern art a century ago. The rituals of Siberian shamans, the ancient funerary sculptures from the steppes s ...Show more
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