SE Sweeney : On Dobuzhinsky,
Diaghilev, Nabokov, and Mir Iskusstva, please see also my essay “Looking at
Harlequins: Nabokov, the World of Art, and the Ballets Russes,” in Nabokov's
World. Ed. Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillin, and Priscilla Meyer. 2 vols. London:
Palgrave, 2002. Volume 2 (Reading Nabokov): 73-95.
C Kunin: "...Honing my
googling skills after trailblazer Jansy discovered the path that joins the
Nabokov family to the Diaghilev family, I have a bit more to add to her
trouvailles. Could this have been "hiding in plain sight" all these years?...
Did Dmitri ever discuss this - as a musician, he must have had some feeling of
family pride? What is very intriguing about this is the fact that VN
doesn't mention this first cousin anywhere ever, or did I miss it? Now, from the
other side, the Nicholas Nabokov/Diaghilev relationship I have googled up some
interesting tidbits. Not, unfortunately, what exactly was the familial
relationship. ...A short trip to the archives demonstrates that some
Nabokov/Diaghilev information has been hiding there in plain sight for some
time. On Monday, 5 November 2007 Sandy Klein sent in a post with the subject
line "among his young pupils was Vladimir Nabokov" [n.b. Dobuzhinsky's style is
reminiscent, at least as described here, of Kalmakov's]"
Jansy Mello: A musical
paradise made Carolyn wax very Viennese (btw: Vladimir Nabokov and Sigmund Freud
shared the same dislike, or lack of interest, for music, but not for
artistic scenarios, theatre, commedias, aso aso...)
Actually,
Nicolas Nabokov has been mentioned by his cousin Vladimir. If I remember it correctly, there's something in Speak,
Memory. and in his letters to "Bunny" ( Nicolas opened doors to Vladimir but
he also got first to a covetted position, I forget which - Check BB's
AY)
Dmitri might have been cautious in
mentioning his cousin because Nicolas Nabokov was deeply involved in
the activities related to the "Congress for Cultural Freedom".
Just a few clicks and we get the
following entries that mention one of Bunny's wives (Mary McCarthy), together
with Nicolas, Stravinski ... (Vladimir Nabokov.contributed only once with
an article or short-story to their cultural magazines and, once again, I
forgot what it was). I
haven't pursued this matter in any depth & although I once leafted
through "The Cultural Cold War: the CIA and the world of arts" (where
there's a photograph of Nicolas Nabokov at a cocktail with lots of other eminent
artists) I had to return the book before I read it.
The cultural Cold War: the CIA and the world of
arts and
...
www.cebela.org.br/.../2000-3%20229-232%20luis%20felipe%20mig...
Origins
of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 — Central -
CIA
www.cia.gov ... Studies in Intelligence
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US
Government agency ... 800 prominent literary and artistic figures congregated in
the Waldorf to call for ... critics Dwight MacDonald and Mary McCarthy, composer
Nicolas Nabokov, ...
Mary McCarthy's Cold
War
journals.cambridge.org/article_S036123330000...
Mary McCarthy had, and has, a formidable reputation in American in-
tellectual life. .... in that, in retrospect, the great masters of the visual
arts were as before those of .... Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Nicolas
Nabokov, Dwight Macdonald, ...
Culture, Ideology and History -
Centre for World Dialogue
www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=163It is far from surprising, then, that abstract art would become one of the
CIA's ... Raymond Aron, Nicolas Nabokov, Mary McCarthy, Tennessee Williams and
...
History of Activism at the Chelsea Pt. 5: Jackson
Pollock Raises a ...
www.chelseahotelblog.com/.../history-of-activis...
20 Mar 2009 – Sickened by capitalist opposition to the W.P.A.'s Federal
Arts Project, Jackson ... guests, including Mary McCarthy, Nicholas Nabokov,
Benjamin Stolberg, ... to the point of writing for CIA-sponsored publications in
many cases.
CIA social engineering via NWOs
www.defence.pk/.../90390-cia-social-engineerin..Modern
art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The. ... General Secretary, Nicolas
Nabokov, and concentrated its efforts on presenting older .... Dwight MacDonald,
Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and numerous ...
How
the C.I.A. Played Dirty Tricks With Our Culture
www.commondreams.org/.../031800-02.htm18 Mar 2000 – The C.I.A., it seems, was worried that the public might be
too influenced ... "The Cultural Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and
Letters" (The ... Walcott and the novelists James Michener and Mary McCarthy,
all of ...
who included Vladimir Nabokov's much less talented cousin,
Nicholas, a composer.
MICHAEL DIRDA
www.washingtonpost.com/.../044r-040200-idx.h...
2 Apr 2000 – The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters .... high-living,
five-wived composer Nicholas Nabokov; the ubiquitous Arthur Schlesinger; ...
Hook, Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, William Phillips, Dwight
Macdonald.
The CIA's covert cultural war | Green Left
Weekly
www.greenleft.org.au/node/1879124
Nov 1999 – ... (J.T. Farrell, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers), actors (Robert
Montgomery), ... CCF general secretary Nicholas Nabokov (composer and cousin of
... state control of the arts in the Soviet Union, capital and the state (the
CIA ...