LEVINSON (André).

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LEVINSON (André).
The Dance of today. Studies. Notes. Portraits. Paris, Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, 1929, large 4°, 517 p., 400 photographic reproductions (Man Ray, Lipnitsky, Steichen... and sets by Léger and Cocteau), full green cloth, smooth spine titled in gold, cover on board (russeting on edges). First edition. André Yacovlev Levinson is a French dance journalist (Saint Petersburg, 1887 - Paris, 1933). A scholarly dance critic and historian, he was able to cast a fresh eye on dance and lay the foundations for a new aesthetic reflection. Inspired by the work of Henri Focillon, Élie Faure and Heinrich Wölfflin on the plastic arts, he observed all the dance forms of his time on a daily basis for thirty years and, freeing himself from the academic references of the 19th century, witnessed the choreographic ferment of the 1920s and 1930s, from the Ballets Russes to the reawakening of the Paris Opera Ballet, including the emergence of European modern dance.
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