Book

Tributes : celebrating fifty years of New York City Ballet / preface by Peter Martins ; foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov ; conceived and edited by Christopher Ramsey.

1st ed.

New York : W. Morrow & Co., c1998.

xv, 161 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

"Collected here are the exquisite paintings, sets, costumes, photography, sculpture, poetry, and writing New York City Ballet has spawned from the great creative minds of our time." Contributors include: W.H. Auden, Richard Avedon, Marc Chagall, Martha Graham, Eric Carle, Joan Didion, Madeleine L'Engle, George Plimpton, Susan Sontag, Wendy Wasserstein, and many more.

New York City Ballet -- Anniversaries, etc.

Ramsey, Christopher.

New York City Ballet.

Celebrating fifty years of New York City Ballet

Preface / Peter Martins -- Foreword / Mikhail Baryshnikov -- Mind over Muscle / James Rosenquist -- Pillars. Lincoln Kirstein / Susan Sontag. Pavel Tchelitchev. Gaston Lachaise. On Learning. On Dance. George Balanchine / Bernard Taper. Tanaquil Le Clercq. Walker Evans. Ernst Haas. Jerome Robbins / Anka Muhlstein and Louis Begley. Peter Martins / Deborah Weisgall. Alain Vaes -- Tributes. Tang Dancer / Brice Marden. On Weightlessness / Francine Prose. Via Parmigianino (for Allegra) / Joseph Cornell. Poet to Ballerina / Robert Lowell. George Balanchine / Henri Cartier-Bresson. Gathering at the Dances / Andrew Solomon. Prodigal Son, scene I set design / Georges Rouault. From And Promenade Home / Agnes de Mille.

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