Rupert Christiansen
Author
Pub. Date
October 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a "City of Light" characterized by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new railway stations and department stores, and a new system...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
x, 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rupert Christiansen, a renowned dance critic and arts correspondent, presents a sweeping history of the Ballets russes and of Serge Diaghilev's dream of bringing Russian art and culture to the West"--
