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ADOLF DE MEYER. Le Prelude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune

Le Prelude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune. Artist: Adolf de Meyer (American (born France), Paris 1868-1946 Los Angeles, California). Dimensions: Album: 15 1/4 x 11 5/8. Date: 1914.
In 1912 de Meyer made a remarkable series of photographs related to the Ballets Russes production L'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun). The avant-garde dance was choreographed by famed Russian performer Vaslav Nijinsky, set to a score by Claude Debussy, and inspired by a poem by Symbolist writer Stéphane Mallarmé. It follows a young faun distracted from his flute-playing by bathing nymphs who seduce and taunt him, leaving behind a scarf with which he allays his desire. When the ballet premiered in Paris on May 29, 1912, the overtly sexual climactic scene and unconventional choreography scandalized audiences. Nijinsky based the angular movements and frieze-like staging on Greek vase paintings, but Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev also likened them to Cubism.

Thirty of de Meyer's photographs of the ballet were published as collotypes (photomechanical ink prints) in a 1914 edition of one thousand luxurious handcrafted books. Only seven copies are known today. Using alternately complex and fragmentary compositions, de Meyer's images generate a rhythm of gesture and form. The thin Japanese papers offer a tactile echo of the diaphanous costumes (designed by artist Léon Bakst), and the heavily manipulated negatives enshroud the angular figures in a dreamlike haze. An object of desire, the book itself embodies the spirit of Nijinsky's ballet.

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Auteur:

ADOLF DE MEYER (1868-1946)

Titre:

Le Prelude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune

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Le Prelude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune. Artist: Adolf de Meyer (American (born France), Paris 1868-1946 Los Angeles, California). Dimensions: Album: 15 1/4 x 11 5/8. Date: 1914. In 1912 de Meyer made a remarkable series of photographs related to the Ballets Russes production L'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun). The avant-garde dance was choreographed by famed Russian performer Vaslav Nijinsky, set to a score by Claude Debussy, and inspired by a poem by Symbolist writer Stéphane Mallarmé. It follows a young faun distracted from his flute-playing by bathing nymphs who seduce and taunt him, leaving behind a scarf with which he allays his desire. When the ballet premiered in Paris on May 29, 1912, the overtly sexual climactic scene and unconventional choreography scandalized audiences. Nijinsky based the angular movements and frieze-like staging on Greek vase paintings, but Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev also likened them to Cubism. Thirty of de Meyer's photographs of the ballet were published as collotypes (photomechanical ink prints) in a 1914 edition of one thousand luxurious handcrafted books. Only seven copies are known today. Using alternately complex and fragmentary compositions, de Meyer's images generate a rhythm of gesture and form. The thin Japanese papers offer a tactile echo of the diaphanous costumes (designed by artist Léon Bakst), and the heavily manipulated negatives enshroud the angular figures in a dreamlike haze. An object of desire, the book itself embodies the spirit of Nijinsky's ballet.

Technique/matériel:

Collotypes

Musée:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Crédit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Autorisations:

Modèle: Non - Propriété: Non
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Taille de l'image:

3257 x 4400 px | 41.0 MB

Taille d'impression:

27.6 x 37.3 cm | 10.9 x 14.7 in (300 dpi)

Mots clés:

ADOLF DE MEYER • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA • UNITED STATES