Автор: Homans Jennifer Название: Apollo`s Angels: A History of Ballet ISBN: 0812968743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812968743 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 14100.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание:
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For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo's Angels--the first cultural history of ballet ever written--is a groundbreaking work. From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, emigre dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings "a dancer's grace and sure-footed agility to the page." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - LOS ANGELES TIMES - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Автор: Homans Jennifer Название: Apollo`s angels ISBN: 1847082564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847082565 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 29700.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The definitive history of ballet and one of Granta`s 2010 bestsellers, Apollo`s Angels was ecstatically reviewed on publication.
Автор: Homans Jennifer Название: Apollo`s Angels: A History of Ballet ISBN: 1400060605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400060603 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 21460.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: One of "The New York Times Book Review"'s 10 Best Books of the Year For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing "The Sleeping Beauty" today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. Ballet has been shaped by the Renaissance and Classicism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Bolshevism, Modernism, and the Cold War. "Apollo's Angels" is a groundbreaking work--the first cultural history of ballet ever written, lavishly illustrated and beautifully told. Ballet is unique: It has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. The steps are never just the steps--they are a living, breathing document of a culture and a tradition. And while ballet's language is shared by dancers everywhere, its artists have developed distinct national styles. French, Italian, Danish, Russian, English, and American traditions each have their own expression, often formed in response to political and societal upheavals. From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France's Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. It was in Russia that dance developed into the form most familiar to American audiences: "The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, " and "The Nutcracker "originated at the Imperial court. In the twentieth century, emigre dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans is a historian and critic who was also a professional dancer: She brings to "Apollo's Angels" a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. She traces the evolution of technique, choreography, and performance in clean, clear prose, drawing readers into the intricacies of the art with vivid descriptions of dances and the artists who made them. Her admiration and love for the ballet shines through on every page. "Apollo's Angels" is an authoritative work, written with a grace and elegance befitting its subject.
Автор: Homans, Jennifer Название: George Balanchine: A History ISBN: 0812994302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812994308 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 24520.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The first major biography of George Balanchine, who revolutionized dance with hundreds of ballets including his now iconic version of The Nutcracker--a big-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped him, from the bestselling author of Apollo's Angels. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived--The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing"--George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography--and life--reinvented the art of dance and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on over 100 interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine's tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine's life coincided with some of the biggest historical events of his time. Born in Russia under the last Czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed dance in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and Homans shows us his loneliness and failures, his five marriages--all to dancers--and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility, and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine's papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine's life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists, and the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B.
Автор: Homans, Jennifer Название: George Balanchine: A History ISBN: 0812984781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812984781 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Francis John, Homans Isaac S. Название: History of the Bank of England ISBN: 3337833470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783337833473 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 52760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: History of the Bank of England - its times and traditions - from 1694 to 1844 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Автор: Smith Homans J. Название: An historical and statistical account of the foreign commerce of the United States ISBN: 935370863X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353708634 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Автор: Homans John Название: Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus (Classic Reprint) ISBN: 1397306610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781397306616 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7330.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Excerpt from Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus Death by hemorrhage is very rare. I have knowl edge of only three instances. Many women are blanched, and anemic, and feeble, but they live, and most of them are relieved by curetting, or at times by electrolysis d a Apostoli, or by the removal of a pedunculated fibroid from the interior of the uterus, or by enucleating a half-extruded one. The feeling of weight and inconvenience caused by these tumors is sufficient in some cases to call for their removal, and the sufferer has a right to demand operation, even if life is not threatened, for surgery is not only to save life, but to contribute to its comfort; and there is no class of cases in which the decision of the patient has more weight than in these cases of fibroid tumors. I do not want to carry this thing any longer; it annoys me. I can not stoop to button my boots, andi want it re moved, said a woman to me. I had put her off several months, and she had abundant time to think the matter over. I thought she had a right to decide the question of operation. I removed the tumor, and she got well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Автор: Homans John Название: Twenty-Five Consecutive Cases of Ovariotomy (Classic Reprint) ISBN: 1397307293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781397307293 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7330.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Excerpt from Twenty-Five Consecutive Cases of Ovariotomy Case XXII. The cyst was removed at the Carney Hospital on March 7, 1880. The umbilical girth was forty-three inches. The tumor had been known to exist for at least four years. Both ovaries were healthy. The fluid removed weighed twenty-six pounds and the cyst eleven ounces. Dr. A. T. Cabot reported that the fluid was slightly alkaline, sp. Gr. 1005. And that it contained a small quantity of albu men and no mucin. She recovered quickly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Автор: Homans George Caspar, Curtis Jr Charles Pelham Название: An Introduction to Pareto: His Sociology ISBN: 1258351188 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258351182 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 44080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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