The Ballets Russes has engaged people for over 100 years, ever since Russianborn Sergei Diaghilev created this dynamic avant-garde company. Diaghilev brought together some of the most important visual artists of the 20th century Picasso, Matisse, Derain, the Delaunays, Braque, de Chirico, Natalia Gonchorova and Mikhail Larionov and more who worked as costume and stage designers with composers such as Igor Stravinsky, choreographers such as Michel Fokine and dancers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, infusing new life and creative energy into the performing arts of the time. Premiering in Paris, the Ballets Russes, for the brief period of its existence (190929), created exotic, extravagant and charming theatrical spectacle but also critical discussion and technical innovation, as well as exuding glamour and often creating scandal wherever it appeared. The costumes featured in this book are drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Australias world-renowned collection of Ballets Russes costumes and ephemera. Through the costumes, drawings, programmes and posters, the visual spectacle of the Ballet Russes is brought back into view for a contemporary audience to appreciate the revolution it was and its ongoing influence.
Tagi: balet rosyjski; teatr i taniec; moda; kostiumy; przebrania; National Gallery of Australia
Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was an extraordinarily gifted impresario, curator, director and animator of the arts. He was perfectly at home in the wave of creative energy that pushed theatrical performance to the forefront of the arts in the early twentieth century - and perfectly placed to export Russian culture to Western Europe. Active in Europe and America between 1909 and 1929, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company expanded the frontiers of theatre.
Not A Toy is the world's first comprehensive investigation into the growing influence of today's character culture on contemporary fashion and costume design. International artists create playful dresses, avant-garde costumes and hairstyles, re-inventing the human body and sending their radical, new characters onto the catwalk and beyond. The vast, colorful compilation, edited by Greek cultural organization for fashion research Atopos, highlights an international scene of established designers and introduces surprising, upcoming talents.
In 1701, Tsar Peter the Great decreed that all residents of Moscow must abandon their traditional dress and wear European fashion. Those who produced or sold Russian clothing would face "dreadful punishment". Peter's dress decree, part of his drive to make Russia more like Western Europe, had a profound impact on the history of Imperial Russia.
DIAGHILEV AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE BALLETS RUSSES : 1909 - 1929
NOT A TOY. FASHIONING RADICAL CHARACTERS
EMPIRE'S NEW CLOTHES: A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN FASHION INDUSTRY (1700-1917)
