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Arnold L. Haskell (1903–1980)

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Obres de Arnold L. Haskell

Ballet (1938) 78 exemplars
The Wonderful World of Dance (1960) 31 exemplars
Balletomania (1946) 31 exemplars
Ballet Panorama (1948) 26 exemplars
Going to the Ballet (1954) 16 exemplars
Balletomania then and now (1977) 11 exemplars
Baron Encore (2021) 10 exemplars
Felicity Dances (1938) 9 exemplars
Dancing around the world (1937) 8 exemplars
Gala performance (1955) 7 exemplars
Balletomane's Scrap Book (1936) 7 exemplars
The Making of a Dancer (1946) 7 exemplars
Ballet Retrospect (1964) 6 exemplars
Anton Dolin (1934) 6 exemplars
A picture history of ballet (1954) 6 exemplars
Balletomane at Large (1972) 6 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 2 4 exemplars
The Australians 4 exemplars
Prelude To Ballet 4 exemplars
Balletomane's Album (1939) 4 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 1 4 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 4 4 exemplars
Ballet Decade 4 exemplars
Ballet To Poland (1940) 3 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 3 3 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 12 3 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 6 3 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 13 (1959) 3 exemplars
Ballet Russe (1968) 3 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 11 (1956) 3 exemplars
Tamara Karsavina (2015) 3 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 9 (1955) 3 exemplars
Prelude To Ballet 2 exemplars
How to Enjoy Ballet (1951) 2 exemplars
Ballet Vignettes 2 exemplars
Waltzing Matilda (1945) 2 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 17 2 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 16 2 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 15 2 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 8 2 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 18 2 exemplars
Ballet Annual No9 1 exemplars
Michael Ayrton 1 exemplars
THE BALLET ANNUAL 5 (1951) 1 exemplars
The Ballet Annual 1 exemplars
Ballet (Pelican) 1 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 5 1 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 7 1 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 10 1 exemplars
Ballet Annual No 14 1 exemplars
Vera Trefilova 1 exemplars
Ballet Annual No11 1 exemplars
La danse art éternel (1900) 1 exemplars
Ballet Annual 17 1 exemplars
Ballet Russes 1 exemplars
Ballet Annual No15 1 exemplars
Baron Encore 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Baron at the Ballet (1950) — Introducció — 36 exemplars
Dancing in Petersburg. The Memoirs of the Princess Romanovsky-Krassinsky (1960) — Traductor, algunes edicions32 exemplars

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I bought this book because I like reading Arthur Upfield's Australian mysteries and this gives a description of Australia in roughly the same period as the mysteries. (It was published in 1942 but based on visits to Australia in the 1930s). Upfield's best stories focus on the outback, but even in the 1930s most of Australia's population lived in the coastal cities, and this book realistically devotes most of its attention to the cities. It does have some vivid descriptions of Australian landscapes, but they are landscapes as seen in parks near the cities, or as seen from trains traveling between cities. Haskell does refer respectful;y to the fact that the Australian economy of the time depended largely on sheepfarming, and he describes wealthy sheepfarmers coming in to the cities and playing a role within the cultural elite, but he does not say much about the actual life on the outlying "stations.'
The format of the book is broadly that of a trip across Australia, beginning by approaching Australia by sea on a ship full of Anglo-Indians going to India (whom Haskell dislikes as snobs, and contrasts with the democratic informality of the Australians traveling on the same ship). Then he describes Perth in Western Australia, traveling by train across the Nullarbor Plain, and visiting Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane. In each place he gives some historical comments about its founding and growth and description of its current (usually flourishing) condition. Besides this main theme, he includes some excursuses, one of Australian arts (he is himself a ballet critic, and discuses Australian theater (weak), Australian writers (sometimes very good), Australian painting (in his view, quite good, especially landscapes and still lifes) and so on. He also discuses the "dictation est" which was designed to keep out Asians (a goal he regards as necessary) but which was used to keep out politically or morally undesirable Europeans (with results he finds ludicrous). Canberra us the only city he has a negative outlook on because he fins Australian politicians unworthy of the people they govern, though he admits this is due largely to the lack of serious interest in politics of any Australians.
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antiquary | Apr 4, 2017 |
Ballet critic Arnold Haskell produced this and a couple other books about Australia after coming here a couple times with the ballet
 
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GlenRalph | Oct 16, 2009 |
Inspired by an exhibition "The Age of Innocence" at the Holburne Museum, Bath in 1969 devised by its Curator and the ballet critic Arnold Haskell, with prams (baby carriages)lent by Min & Stanley Lewis from their Museum at Beckington. Little had been previously written on the history of perambulators and this book provides an interesting and readable introduction both for the collector and the social historian, with drawings by Stanley Lewis of the prams, rattles, teething sticks and feeding bottles in use.… (més)
 
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gibbon | May 15, 2006 |

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Obres
110
També de
2
Membres
500
Popularitat
#49,493
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
18
Llengües
1

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