The man who did more for the arts in America than anyone else.

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

THE WORLDS OF LINCOLN KIRSTEIN

By Martin Duberman

Knopf. 723 pp. $37.50Lincoln Kirstein (1907-96) was one of the 20th century's great impresarios of art and culture. He started the important literary magazine Hound and Horn (Ezra Pound was its European editor), helped in the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art and devoted much of his life and family fortune (from Filene's department stores) to sustaining both the School of American Ballet (SAB) and the much-loved New York City Ballet. Over the years, he also wrote standard histories of dance, essays and monographs on choreographers and ...

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