And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

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Synopsis: Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation that crossed over into the personal and libidinal, Volynsky looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred high priest of classical dance, George Balanchine. With an undeniable proclivity toward ballet's female component, Volynsky's dance writings, illuminated by examples of his earlier gendered criticism, invite speculation on how truly ground-breaking and forward-looking this critic is.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780190943387
Related ISBNs:: 9780190943370, 9780190943363, 9780190943394
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Date of Addition:: 12/17/22
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Music
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Stanley J. Rabinowitz