Modernism on Stage : The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-garde (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: the Ballets Russes and the Parisian avant-garde; Staging modernism: the Ballets Russes from Scheherazade to Le Sacre du printemps; Moving pictures: Pablo Picasso and Parade; Fashioning new women: Sonia Delaunay and CleopA￠tre; Disorienting decoration: Henri Matisse and Le Chant du rossignol; Animated stones: Giorgio de Chirico and Le Bal; Conclusion: afterlives of the Ballets Russes: modernism and the total artwork; Selected bibliography; Index.