
Njinsky Dancing
Lincoln Kirstein
The head of the New York City Ballet, poet, and novelist presents a collection of essays on dance, painting, photography, theater, politics, and literature, discussing Balanchine, Hemingway, Hart Crane, James Cagney, and others.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 1991
- ISBN-13
- 9780374187651
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Dance and balletArt criticismCultural essays
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1976)
Other awarded books from Lincoln Kirstein
- Elie Nadelman
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