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The Ghost of a Rose
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The ballet brings together many of the threads pursued in this book: patronage, queerness, the Sitwells, interactions between fine art, design, and popular culture. Because Diaghilev made ballet a fashion, his public found themselves exposed to avant-garde music and art which would otherwise have struggled to find an audience, but ballet’s relationship with modernism is uneasy. Apart from being unnatural, ballet is collective and collaborative rather than individualistic, which sets it at an angle to any idea of art as the product of a purely individual consciousness. The radical modernist approach to dance was to deconstruct ballet and start again from the ground up, evolving expressive dance forms based on natural movement. However, ballet was a meeting point of high and low culture.
Title: The Ghost of a Rose
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The ballet brings together many of the threads pursued in this book: patronage, queerness, the Sitwells, interactions between fine art, design, and popular culture.
Because Diaghilev made ballet a fashion, his public found themselves exposed to avant-garde music and art which would otherwise have struggled to find an audience, but ballet’s relationship with modernism is uneasy.
Apart from being unnatural, ballet is collective and collaborative rather than individualistic, which sets it at an angle to any idea of art as the product of a purely individual consciousness.
The radical modernist approach to dance was to deconstruct ballet and start again from the ground up, evolving expressive dance forms based on natural movement.
However, ballet was a meeting point of high and low culture.
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