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Author | : Mary Grace Swift |
Publisher | : Wesleyan |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1974-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Winner of the De La Torre Bueno Prize (1973) Charles-Louis Didelot was one of the greatest figures in ballet in the period preceding the Romantic. He was a balletmaster in the fullest sense of the word: an exacting teacher-director, whose many contributions included dancing en pointe and mime; a highly imaginative choreographer, who often collaborated with his composers and even instructed the orchestra; an innovative scenographer, whose insistence on authenticity and realism in costuming and staging revolutionized the production of ballet. Above all, he was a perfectionist; and in Revolutionary Paris, in Regency London and in Imperial Petersburg Didelot single-mindedly pursued his career, ignoring royal imperatives and fighting court intrigues and theatrical politics to realize as fully as possible his larger vision of the dance. Based upon extensive research in four languages, Mary Grace Swift's book is the first biography in English of Didelot. It is a full, impressively documented account of his life and career, in which she brings vividly to life the artistic milieu in which Didelot flourished. Moreover, but none the less importantly, this book goes far toward making available to scholars and ballet-lovers information on the little known pre-Romantic period.
Author | : Mary Grace Swift |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Choreographers |
ISBN | : 9780608178264 |
Author | : Henry Norman Hudson |
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Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1839 |
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Author | : Thomas Curtis |
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Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1842 |
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Author | : William Sotheby |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Italy |
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Author | : William Sotheby |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : Italy |
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Author | : Thomas Kessner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199752648 |
In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in the modern age of commercial aviation. In The Flight of the Century, Thomas Kessner takes a fresh look at one of America's greatest moments, explaining how what was essentially a publicity stunt became a turning point in history. Kessner vividly recreates the flight itself and the euphoric reaction to it on both sides of the Atlantic, and argues that Lindbergh's amazing feat occurred just when the world--still struggling with the disillusionment of WWI--desperately needed a hero to restore a sense of optimism and innocence. Kessner also shows how new forms of mass media made Lindbergh into the most famous international celebrity of his time, casting him in the role of a humble yet dashing American hero of rural origins and traditional values. Much has been made of Lindbergh's personal integrity and his refusal to cash in on his fame, but Kessner reveals that Lindbergh was closely allied with, and managed by, a group of powerful businessmen--Harry Guggenheim, Dwight Morrow, and Henry Breckenridge chief among them--who sought to exploit aviation for mass transport and massive profits. Their efforts paid off as commercial air traffic soared from 6,000 passengers in 1926 to 173,000 passengers in 1929. Kessner's book is the first to fully explore Lindbergh's central role in promoting the airline industry--the rise of which has influenced everything from where we live to how we wage war and do business.
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Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : English literature |
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