Diaghilev - A Life

Informationen zum Autor Sjeng Scheijen is a Senior Research Fellow and Veni-laureate at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He is a historian of Russian art, an exhibition curator, and a former cultural attaché at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Moscow. Klappentext This major, eminently readable, and well-illustrated new biography, the first in thirty years, by a young art historian and Russian scholar is based on much original research, especially in Russia, and reassesses Diaghilev as impresario and illuminates his enigmatic personality.

Product details

• Authors: Sjeng Scheijen, Scheijen Sjeng
• Assisted by: Jane Hedley-Prole (Translation), S. J. Leinbach (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.09.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780199751495
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975149-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Russia, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, HISTORY / World, Biography: arts & entertainment, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Ballet, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Biography: arts and entertainment, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Classical style, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era