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Leon Bakst was the most brilliant and daring costume designer of his time, his influence so radical and pervasive that the first two decades of the twentieth century have been called the Bakst era. When published in 1973, Charles Spencer's biography of Bakst, the greatest designer of the Ballets Russes, was the first full-length study of the artist since his death in 1924. It was accompanied by the first one-man exhibition of Bakst's work at the Fine Art Society, London for some forty-five years. The author's compulsion to re-write the story, twenty years later, arises both from the desire to incorporate important new material, and also to place both the Ballets Russes and Bakst firmly within the context of Russian art and culture. In retitling the book Bakst and the Ballet Russes, Spencer provides an invaluable assessment of the great art renaissance of Slavophilism, in literature, music, art and the theatre as the background which produced and influenced its founder, the enigmatic Serge de Diaghilev and Bakst in their extraordinary careers. Above all the totally re-written and enlarged text, plus more than 300 illustrations, explore the complex personality and decorative genius o

Author

Spencer, Charles; Spencer, Charles. Leon Bakst

Publisher

Academy Editions Ltd (a division of John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781854903488