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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It was Maghiles’s artistic credo’ that ballet should be the synthesis of all the arts and should reflect the influences and leas of its time. This Bakst helped him to achieve in the twelve productions which he designed for hirn. They were recognised as a major artistic revolution in twentieth-century art. Bakst with Fokine as choreographer collaborated in this new revol utionary art with Debussy Ravel and Stravinsky and exultantly reinterpreted the works of Rimsky Balakirev and Tchaikovsky. Bakst gave a new vision of the age and style of ancient Egypt the Orient classical Greece the Romantic period and the golden age of the Grand Siecle in the ballet La Belle au Bois Dormant which was his swan song. In praising Bakst’s outstanding artistic contribution one must not forget the other Russian designers Benois Roerich Golovine. Korovine. Larionoy who with their creative fire decorated and sustained the Russian Bailet unique (OS)