Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, byLynn Garafola. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. xviii + 524 pp., illustrations. $29.95.

Abstract

Art * The Liberating Aesthetic of Michel Fokine * The Vanguard Poetic of Vaslac Nijinsky * The Making of Ballet Modernism * The Twenties Enterprise * Russian Origins * Into the Marketplace * Underwriting Modernism: American Intermezzo * Era of the Dance Boom * Protean Identities Audience * Paris: The Cultivated Audience * London: Lords, Ladies, and Literati * The Postwar Audience * Epilogue * Appendix A: Works Created by Michel Fokine, 1905-1917 * Appendix B: Operas Produced by Serge Diaghilev * Appendix C: Ballets Produced by Serge Diaghilev