Most Popular Books by Lincoln Kirstein

Rijk geïllustreerde uitgave over de geschiedenis van het New Yorkse balletgezelschap van 1912 tot en met 1973

"More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of an essential America that we have long accepted as fact, American Photographs, first published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938, is the purest and most complete expression of his cool, unblinking vision. the eighty-seven photographs reproduced on its pages are as relevant and essential as ever, with Lincoln Kirstein''s essay as their eloquent foil. American Photographs has been a key touch-stone for photographers and those who seek to understand the lyric potential of the medium, but it has often been out of print. This Seventy-Fifth-Anniversary Edition, with sumptuous duotone plates complementing the elegant restraint of the original typography and design, makes Evans''s landmark book available again. For the first time, digital technologies aid in emulating the precise cropping and finely tuned balance of the 1938 reproductions, capturing as never before the look and feel of the first edition."--cover jacket.

Traces the development of dance''s basic components, choreography, gesture, music, costume, and scenery, and discusses the backgrounds of the most important ballets

The 800 masterful drawings by Carlus Dyer demonstrate the proper body position, balance point, movement, and attitude of each position and step in the basic classical repertoire. As Balanchine points out in his preface, the illustrations are more accurate than photographs could possibly be because they have been corrected and recorrected until they approximate the ideal.

Lincoln Kirstein''swriting is a notable example of a wide historical awareness that was fired by passion and guided by taste. He established his interests in art and literature as an undergraduate at Harvard during the late 1920s.There he started the famous quarterly Hound & Horn, a magazine that published the work of such writers as James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, and also cofounded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, which exhibited the work of cutting-edge artists. Best known for his pioneering efforts to cultivate ballet in the United States, he actively pursued a professional partnership with legendary choreographer George Balanchine, with whom he founded both the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet. This collection, in paperback for the first time, showcases Kirstein''s knowledge of dance, painting, photography, theatre, politics, and literature and combines many of his best-known and most authoritative statements with less familiar but equally brilliant polemics and appreciations. Along with autobiographical essays and poetry, his commentary covers such diverse personalities as composer Igor Stravinsky, photographer Walker Evans, author Ernest Hemingway, actress Marilyn Monroe, and Robert Gould Shaw, leader of the courageous black Civil War regiment. The book also contains photographs from Kirstein''s private collection--portraits of himself and other famous artists of the time, such as Diaghilev, Cocteau, and Eisenstein, among others.

Lincoln Kirstein is well known as the foundu00ading director of the New York City Ballet, for his writings on dance, photography, paintu00ading, and sculpture. Known to few readers, however, is this early (1932)work, his only published novel, autobiographical in conu00adtent but historical in scope and purpose. In a revealing Afterword, Mr. Kirstein reu00adcalls his family background and education as well as the circumstances surrounding the writing of his novel. Family wealth and the "permissive generosity" of his parents gave him familiarity with "a fraction of literary London, the main European museums, plus Northern Italy, Spain, and North Africa" by the time he had completed his college education. He thus possessed a unique view, which inspired him "to write an ''historical'' novel which would utilize what I knew and felt about my own times in as pictorial a fashion as I might muster." Flesh is Heir is the story of a boy who serves as the type of the first generation arisu00ading in the United States after World War I. At boarding school he experiences mortal fear of a crazy classmate: in a glass works he sees the ironical cruelties of manual labor; in London and Paris he encounters the decau00addence of one pattern of life, and in Venice, the death of another. He returns from abroad to find the triumph of a violent new force, and with that force he is absorbed.