Nijinskys Feeling Mind

Author : Nicole Svobodny
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793653542
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nijinsky's Feeling Mind written by Nicole Svobodny and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates Nijinsky's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, equating these intertextual connections to "marking" a dance, whereby the dancer uses a reduction strategy situated between thinking and doing. By exploring the intersections of bodily movement with verbal language, this book addresses broader questions of how we sense and make sense of our worlds. Drawing on archival research, along with studies in psychology and philosophy, Svobodny emphasizes the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I. Nijinsky began his life-writing—a book he titled Feeling—the day after the Paris Peace Conference opened, and the same day he performed his "last dance." Nijinsky's Feeling Mind begins with the dancer on stage and concludes as he invites readers into his private room. Illuminating the structure, plot, medium, and mode of Feeling, this study calls on readers to grapple with a paradox: the more the dancer insists on his writing as a live performance, the more he points to the material object that entombs it.

Author : Waslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520009455
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky written by Waslaw Nijinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius.

Author : Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674518X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition written by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness. With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernism, transforming our understanding of the era’s canonical works. Butterfield-Rosen analyzes a hitherto unexamined formal phenomenon in European art: how artists departed from conventions for posing the human figure that had long been standard. In the decades around 1900, artists working in different countries and across different media began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, both archaic and modern, broke with the centuries-old tradition of rendering bodies in torsion, with poses designed to simulate the human being’s physical volume and capacity for autonomous thought and movement. This formal departure destabilized prevailing visual codes for signifying the existence of the inner life of the human subject. Exploring major works by Georges Seurat, Gustav Klimt, and the dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky— replete with new archival discoveries—Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition combines intensive formal analysis with inquiries into the history of psychology and evolutionary biology. In doing so, it shows how modern understandings of human consciousness and the relation of mind to body were materialized in art through a new vocabulary of postures and poses.

Author : Peter F. Ostwald
Publisher : Lyle Stuart
ISBN 13 : 9780818405358
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vaslav Nijinsky written by Peter F. Ostwald and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 1991 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0874772060
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outsider written by Colin Wilson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. "An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament."—Philip Toynbee.

Author : Richard Buckle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360557
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nijinsky written by Richard Buckle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intoxicating story of one of the greatest dancers in the history of ballet?and the paradox of his profound genius and descent into madness. Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The Rite of Spring provoked riots when performed and are now regarded as the foundation of modern dance. Through his liaison with the great impresario Diaghilev, he worked with the artistic elite of the time. During the fabulous Diaghilev years he lived in an atmosphere of perpetual hysteria, glamor, and intrigue. Then, in 1913, he married a Hungarian aristocrat, Romola de Pulszky, and was abruptly dismissed from the Ballet Russe. Five years later, he was declared insane. The fabulous career as the greatest dancer who ever lived was over. Drawing on countless people who knew and worked with Nijinsky, Richard Buckle has written the definitive biography of the legendary dancer.

Author : Anika Walke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253025087
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age written by Anika Walke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that “eloquently examines the numerous forms of movement from and across Central, Eastern Europe and Russia from a historical perspective” (Comparative Literature Studies). Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the “other.” From walkways to railroads to airports, the history of travel provides a context for considering the people and events that have shaped Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Author : Murray Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317536886
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People written by Murray Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash. Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Jeanne Magagna, revealing the wellspring of creativity in the subjects’ emotional experiences and delving into the nature of psychotic states which influence and impede the creative process. Jackson and Magagna aim to illustrate how psychoanalytic thinking can be relevant to people suffering from psychotic states of mind and provide understanding of the personalities of four exceptionally talented creative individuals. Present in the text are themes of loving and losing, mourning and manic states, creating as a process of repairing a sense of internal damage and the use of creativity to understand or run away from oneself. The book concludes with a glossary of useful psychoanalytic concepts. Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, other psychoanalytically informed professionals, students and anyone interested in the relationship between creativity and psychosis.

Author : Vaslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky written by Vaslaw Nijinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Nijinsky written by Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waslaw Nijinsky was born in Warsaw, the son of two professional dancers. At nine years he transferred to St Petersburg Imperial ballet and was then headhunted by the impresario Serge Diaghilev, where he became the lead dancer of his forward-looking ballet company.. His skill and grace were undeniable and when the company first visited Britain in the early 1900s the London audiences had seen nothing comparable and were spellbound. Nijinsky was famous for his ability to almost hover in the air, and his technical brilliance.