The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810125188 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 723 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Overwhelmed me with nostalgia" according to D. Donohue. The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein is terrifically detailed and sweeps the reader into the best years of New York, especially. I could not put it down and walked around carrying this massive tome everywhere because I could not be parted from it. He truly crossed paths with EVERYONE, and it was ent. "One Man's Art World" according to Christian Schlect. A superb biography of a complicated person who was not only a key figure in the development of ballet in America, but a cultural leader in a wide sweep of artistic endeavors over most of the last century. While his creative partnership with George Balanchine is central to this book, Lincoln Ki. Academic and a bit remote for general readership, but some fine history and interesting stories At the September 2009 of the NYC LGBT Center book discussion group, we had a small but very smart and vocal group that read the "The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein" by Martin Duberman.I think that we all wanted to learn more about Lincoln Kirstein and wanted to like this book, but almost everyone
Finalist, 2008 Pulitzer PrizeLincoln Kirstein was a tireless champion of the arts in America. Though best known as a benefactor of the arts, Kirstein was also an adept critic, poet and novelist who published some fifteen books in his lifetime. Working behind the scenes to provide artists with money, space, audiences, and, at times, emotional support, he helped found such landmark cultural institutions as the New York City Ballet, the School of American Ballet, New York’s Lincoln Center and Stratford's American Shakespeare Festival. Duberman's biography sheds light on this lamentably neglected cultural figure. The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein brings attention to an important, but until-now unappreciated figure whose individual contribution to the arts was one of the greatest of the twentieth century.. From his undergraduate years at Harvard, where he established the influential literary magazine Hound and Horn, as well as the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art (precursor to the Modern Museum of Art), to his complex and historically significant relationship with George Balanchine, Kirstein's contributions were indespensible to the development of the arts in America. Authoritative and elegant, Duberman's biography utilizes previously unavailable docum
(Apr. From Publishers Weekly A central figure in 20th-century American modernism, Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996) edited a pioneering literary magazine and was the driving force behind George Balanchine's revolutionary New York City Ballet. 36 pages of photos. Born of a wealthy Jewish family but unable to personally finance his many schemes, Kirstein became a frenzied impresario of the avant-garde, perpetually sweating out budget shortfalls and opening night reviews and pestering philanthropists for funds to bring high-brow dance to suspicious but increasingly receptive American audiences. Kirstein's tornado life and crazy-quilt projects can be bewildering, but Duberman conjures an indelible sense of a creative urge that became a tortuous pilgrimage toward an enigmatic muse. 19)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed E