The worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

Martin Duberman

Lincoln Kirstein?s contributions to the nation?s life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary journal Hound and Horn, as well as the modernist Harvard Society for Contemporary Art?forerunner of the Museum of Modern Art. He brought George Balanchine to the United States, and in service to the great choreographer?s talent, persisted, against heavy odds, in creating both the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. But behind this remarkably accomplished and renowned public face lay a complex, contradictory, often tortured human being. Kirstein suffered for decades from bipolar disorder, which frequently strained his relationships with his family and friends, a circle that included many notables, from W. H. Auden to Nelson Rockefeller. And despite being married for more than fifty years to a woman whom he deeply loved, Kirstein had a wide range of homosexual relationships throughout the course of his life.

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  • Boek
  • Engels
  • Knopf
  • viii, 723, [36] p: ill

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IHLIA LGBTI HeritageKnopf, 2007
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