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 hasbeen mentioned by his cousin Vladimir. If I remember it correctly, there's something inSpeak, 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
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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
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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 ...
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