Russian Ballet (Book), Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Russian Ballet is an artist's book by the English artist David Bomberg published in 1919. The work describes the impact of seeing a performance of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and is based on a series of drawings Bomberg had done around 1914, whilst associated with the Vorticist group of avant-garde artists in London. Centred around Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, the movement flourished briefly 1914-1915, before being dispersed by the impact of the First World War. The only surviving example of a vorticist artist's book, the work can be seen as a parody of Marinetti's seminal futurist book Zang Tumb Tumb, using similar language to the Italian's work glorifying war, (Methodic discord startles..), but instead praising the impact of watching the decidedly less macho Ballets Russes in full flow.