Mallarmé

[ma-lar-mey]

noun

1. Stéphane 1842–98, French poet.

Mallarmé

/ malarme /

noun

1. Stéphane (stefan). 1842–98, French symbolist poet, noted for his free verse, in which he chooses words for their evocative qualities; his works include L'Après-midi d'un Faune (1876), Vers et Prose (1893), and Divagations (1897)

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Ms. Gluck performed and directed at Batsheva for 16 years, taking leading roles in reinterpreting pieces that Graham had debuted in the 1940s including “Herodiade,” based on a work by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé; “Cave of the Heart,” inspired by the Euripides drama “Medea”; and the ballet “Diversion of Angels.”

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The next section examines the Barnes mural and a commission to illustrate a book of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poems.

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Williams’s version takes a more sinister tone than Nijinsky’s erotic one, sparked by a line in the Mallarmé poem for which the dance is named: the Faun refers to — as Williams writes — a “kiss that quietly gives assurance of treachery.”

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Among the show’s most captivating works are a 1929-31 painting, “The Yellow Dress,” which eludes my ability to find apt words but absolutely epitomizes Matisse’s genius as a colorist; “Purple Robe and Anemones,” a 1937 painting of almost impossible suaveness; and the illustrations he made for a 1932 edition of Stephane Mallarmé’s poems — the first of many books he would illustrate.

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“After finding Nothingness, I have found Beauty,” Mallarmé wrote.

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