This illustrated book concerns Leon Bakst (!866-1924), a Russian artist and a founding member of the Mir iskusstva (World Art) association, a group organized in St Petersburg in the late 1890s by artists and art lovers, led by Alexander Benois and Sergei Diaghilev. It contains colour reproductions of his paintings, book illustrations and set designs for which he was most noted. His stage sets and costumes are known for their elements of fantasy, beauty and historical accuracy. He made a unique contribution to the promotion ...
Read More
This illustrated book concerns Leon Bakst (!866-1924), a Russian artist and a founding member of the Mir iskusstva (World Art) association, a group organized in St Petersburg in the late 1890s by artists and art lovers, led by Alexander Benois and Sergei Diaghilev. It contains colour reproductions of his paintings, book illustrations and set designs for which he was most noted. His stage sets and costumes are known for their elements of fantasy, beauty and historical accuracy. He made a unique contribution to the promotion of Russian art in Western Europe as the leading designer for the Russian ballet.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Leon Bakst. Near fine. Translated from Russian by Arthur Shkarvoski-Raffe. Illustrated (color and black & white). 246 pages. 4to, paper wrappers. Hammondsworth: Penguin, (1988). Reprint. A near fine copy.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
VG-(Wraps are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly worn/smudged/scuffed; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) Navy wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 245 pp.; richly illustrated. "Scarce original English-language edition printed in Austria & published in Russia/USSR (commissioned by the renowned Aurora Art based in St. Petersburg), beautifully illustrated throughout on glossy paper. Many subsequent publications on Bakst issued by various American/Western European publishers are based on this very edition. Léon Bakst (1866-1924), a leading Russian artist, was a highly energetic founding member of the Mir iskusstva [World of Art] association, a group organized in St. Petersburg in the late 1890s by artists and art lovers, led by Alexander Benois and Sergei Diaghilev. Its membership included many gifted painters and graphic artists, not only in St. Petersburg but also in Moscow, among them Ivan Bilibin, Alexander Golovin, Igor Grabar, Konstantin Korovin, Boris Kustodiev, Nikolai Roerich and Valentin Serov. Bakst was widely acclaimed as a portraitist, book illustrator and landscape painter, though his style was seen to best advantage in the work he did for the theatre. His designs for stage sets and costumes are conspicuous for their riotous fantasy, astounding beauty and historical authenticity. As the leading designer for the Ballets Russes, which Sergei Diaghilev promoted abroad, Bakst made a unique contribution to the popularization of Russian art in western Europe."--WorldCat.
