Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

Details:

Author: Jennifer Homans
Pages: 642
Publisher: Random House, Inc.

Synopsis:

Selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2010 Top 100 Book and by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2010.

Industry Reviews:

"[A] magisterial history of classical dance....APOLLO'S ANGELS is a cultural history of the highest order....The book, with its quiet, encyclopedic knowledge, relates more than a decade spent in archives around the world, reading generations of scholars."
(09/01/2010) "[A]n important and groundbreaking work...."
(11/08/2010) "It has never been done, what Jennifer Homans has done in APOLLO'S ANGELS. She has written the only truly definitive history of the most impossibly fantastic art form, ballet, this most refined, most exquisite art of 'aristocratic etiquette,'...in which lovely young women perch upon their 10 little tip toes...."
(11/28/2010)

Book Details Summary:

The title of this book is Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet and it was written by Jennifer Homans . This edition of Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is November 2011. There are 642 pages in the book and it was published by Random House, Inc.. The 10 digit ISBN is 0812968743 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780812968743.