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Hymn to Apollo : the ancient world and the Ballets Russes

Title
Hymn to Apollo : the ancient world and the Ballets Russes / edited by Clare Fitzgerald ; with contributions by John E. Bowlt, Rachel Herschman, Kenneth Lapatin, and Frederick G. Naerebout.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University ; Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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TextUse in library *MGRS 19-2195Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
TextUse in library JQF 19-426Schwarzman Building M1 - Art & Architecture Room 300

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Additional Authors
  • Fitzgerald, Clare, 1982-
  • Bowlt, John E.
  • Herschman, Rachel
  • Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.
  • Naerebout, F. G.
  • New York University. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, host institution.
Description
140 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Summary
In the ancient world, dance was used to express important truths about the human condition, and this significance can still be seen today in representations of dancers in ancient art. Sculpture, relief carving, vase painting, and other visual media offer a glimpse of the function of dance in antiquity. In the modern era, the Ballets Russes, a Paris-based collective established by Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), revolutionized dance and revived European and American interest in ballet, in part by drawing on notions of dance from the ancient world. Ballets Russes choreographers, designers, and collaborators looked to ancient culture for subjects and themes, and for a notion of dance as an expressive art form integrated with ritual. Hymn to Apollo explores the role of dance in ancient art and culture and how artists of the Ballets Russes returned to the past as a source for modern expression. Thematic essays and lavish illustrations present a fresh perspective on ancient artifacts, and watercolors, illustrations, sketchbooks, photographs, costumes, and other archival Ballets Russes material show how artists turned to the ancient world to create something new.00Exhibition: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, USA (06.03-06.06.2019).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: the ancient world and the Ballets Russes, March 6, 2019-June 2, 2019"--page 140.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Letter from ISAW / Alexander Jones -- Acknowledgments / Clare Fitzgerald -- Introduction / Rachel Herschman -- Achoreutos apaideutos : dance in ancient Greece / Frederick G. Naerebout -- "Bold and dazzling" : Léon Bakst and antiquity / John E Bowlt -- Works in focus / Kenneth Lapatin, Rachel Herschman, Clare Fitzgerald.
Call Number
JQF 19-426
ISBN
  • 9780691193281
  • 0691193282
LCCN
2018959904
OCLC
1066087920
Title
Hymn to Apollo : the ancient world and the Ballets Russes / edited by Clare Fitzgerald ; with contributions by John E. Bowlt, Rachel Herschman, Kenneth Lapatin, and Frederick G. Naerebout.
Publisher
New York, NY : Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University ; Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Fitzgerald, Clare, 1982- editor.
Bowlt, John E., contributor.
Herschman, Rachel, contributor.
Lapatin, Kenneth D. S., contributor.
Naerebout, F. G., contributor.
New York University. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 19-426
*MGRS 19-2195
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