Degas Dance Politics And Society

Author : Adriano Pedrosa,Fernando Oliva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 6557770055

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Degas by Adriano Pedrosa,Fernando Oliva Pdf

This substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is a decisive contribution to the literature on the French Impressionist artist. An innovative and groundbreaking book, with underlying discussions related to "dance, politics and society," it pays special attention to issues of gender, identity, labor, race and the representation of women. Degas worked in various mediums, and, at the end of his life, left around 6,000 works, including 2,000 related to the world of dance and ballet. The contradictions and ambiguities of his art, especially the way he straddles both tradition and modernity, reaffirm both his uniqueness and significance in the history of Western art. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society includes ten essays, never before published, by experts around the world, and also features a visual essay of black-and-white photographs of the bronze sculptures, including Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by the Brazilian artist Sofia Borges. Through her camera, Borges reinterprets and conceives new images of Degas' most cherished and classic sculptures. Borges' extraordinary photographs reveal, transform and revisit Degas' works in an innovative and radical manner. Exhibition: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (12.04.2020-08.01.2021).

Author : Adriano Pedrosa
Publisher : Delmonico Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636810047

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Degas: Dance, Politics and Society by Adriano Pedrosa Pdf

A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the works This substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is a decisive contribution to the literature on the French Impressionist artist. An innovative and groundbreaking book, with underlying discussions related to "dance, politics and society," it pays special attention to issues of gender, identity, labor, race and the representation of women. Degas worked in various mediums, and, at the end of his life, left around 6,000 works, including 2,000 related to the world of dance and ballet. The contradictions and ambiguities of his art, especially the way he straddles both tradition and modernity, reaffirm both his uniqueness and significance in the history of Western art. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society includes ten essays, never before published, by experts around the world, and also features a visual essay of black-and-white photographs of the bronze sculptures, including Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by the Brazilian artist Sofia Borges. Through her camera, Borges reinterprets and conceives new images of Degas' most cherished and classic sculptures. Borges' extraordinary photographs reveal, transform and revisit Degas' works in an innovative and radical manner.

Author : Kathryn Wagner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385343862

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Dancing for Degas by Kathryn Wagner Pdf

In the City of Lights, at the dawn of a new age, begins an unforgettable story of great love, great art—and the most painful choices of the heart. With this fresh and vibrantly imagined portrait of the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, readers are transported through the eyes of a young Parisian ballerina to an era of light and movement. An ambitious and enterprising farm girl, Alexandrie joins the prestigious Paris Opera ballet with hopes of securing not only her place in society but her family’s financial future. Her plan is soon derailed, however, when she falls in love with the enigmatic artist whose paintings of the offstage lives of the ballerinas scandalized society and revolutionized the art world. As Alexandrie is drawn deeper into Degas’s art and Paris’s secrets, will she risk everything for her dreams of love and of becoming the ballet’s star dancer?

Author : Camille Laurens
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590519592

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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Camille Laurens Pdf

This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, shedding light on the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, or Copenhagen, but where is her grave? We know only her age, fourteen, and the work that she did—because it was already grueling work, at an age when children today are sent to school. In the 1880s, she danced as a “little rat” at the Paris Opera, and what is often a dream for young girls now wasn’t a dream for her. She was fired after several years of intense labor; the director had had enough of her repeated absences. She had been working another job, even two, because the few pennies the Opera paid weren’t enough to keep her and her family fed. She was a model, posing for painters or sculptors—among them Edgar Degas. Drawing on a wealth of historical material as well as her own love of ballet and personal experiences of loss, Camille Laurens presents a compelling, compassionate portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited that shows the importance of those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art.

Author : Richard Kendall,Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Pandora Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Feminism and art
ISBN : UCSD:31822015623200

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Dealing with Degas by Richard Kendall,Griselda Pollock Pdf

This is a collection of essays based on the papers by leading Degas experts given at the Table Gallery, Liverpool in 1989 as well as further American academics, especially commissioned for this book. The text demonstrates the diversity of approaches and issues generated around the problematic material of Degas' images of women, combining art history, cultural theory and psychology. Richard Kendall is an art historian and organizer of the Liverpool conference.

Author : Cathy Marie Buchanan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443412360

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The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan Pdf

#1 National Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller Paris, 1878. Following her father’s sudden death, Marie van Goethem is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant wage she is trained to enter the famous Ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work—and the love of a dangerous young man—as an extra on the stage. Marie is soon modeling in the studio of renowned artist Edgar Degas, who will immortalize her image forever, while Antoinette must make the choice between a life of honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a willing young woman—that is, unless her perilous love derails her completely. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of civilized society. Praise for THE PAINTED GIRLS #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NPR BEST BOOK GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FINALIST ONTARIO PUBLIC LIBRARY EVERGREEN AWARD WINNER CHATELAINE BOOK CLUB PICK PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY MUST LIST PICK VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE PICK VOGUE BOOKS PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT PICK HARPER’S BAZAAR WHAT WE’RE READING NOW PICK USA TODAY NEW & NOTEWORTHY PICK CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR SMART NEW HISTORICAL NOVELS PICK SAN FRANCISO CHRONICLE BOOK RECOMMENDATION BOSTON GLOBE WORD ON THE STREET PICK INDIE NEXT PICK GOOD MORNING TEXAS BUY THE BOOK PICK ASPEN DAILY NEWS BOOKSELLERS STAFF PICK ZOOMER BOOKMARK PICK SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SAFEWAY BOOK OF THE MONTH

Author : David Hopkins,Disa Persson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000905083

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Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde by David Hopkins,Disa Persson Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health and hygiene, such as illness, contagion, cleanliness, and contamination. Examining the artistic oeuvres of some of the canonical names of modern art – including Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, George Orwell, Marcel Duchamp, and Antonin Artaud – this book investigates instances where the heightened political, social, and cultural currencies embedded within issues of hygiene and contagion have been mobilised, and subversively exploited, to fuel the critical strategy at play. This edited volume promotes an interdisciplinary and socio-historically contextualised understanding of the criticality of the avant-garde gesture and cultivates scholarship that moves beyond the limits of traditional academic subjects to produce innovative and thought-provoking connections and interrelations across various fields. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, theatre, cultural studies, modern history, medical humanities, and visual culture.

Author : Jill Devonyar,Edgar Degas,Richard Kendall,Detroit Institute of Arts,Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055828936

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Degas and the Dance by Jill Devonyar,Edgar Degas,Richard Kendall,Detroit Institute of Arts,Philadelphia Museum of Art Pdf

Seeks to illuminate the themes present in the artist's works, presenting new material about Degas's highly informed relationship with the ballet of the nineteenth century.

Author : Richard Kendall,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040705454

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Degas Dancers by Richard Kendall,Edgar Degas Pdf

He addressed the routine of the practice room, the drabness of backstage life, the moment of transformation as performers left or entered the stage, and the squalid, amorous adventures between the ballerinas and the black-suited, top-hatted, and often sinister gentlemen who sought their favors after a performance.

Author : Jill De Vonyar,Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1855444267

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Degas and the Dance by Jill De Vonyar,Philadelphia Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Roberta Crisci-Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443879330

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Mapping Degas by Roberta Crisci-Richardson Pdf

The New Art History and the Impressionist canon seem to have successfully claimed Edgar Degas as a misogynist, rabid nationalist and misanthrope whose art was both masterly and experimental. By analysing Degas’s approach to space and his self-fashioning attitude towards identity within the ambiguities of the political and artistic culture of nineteenth-century France, this book questions the characterisation of Degas as a right-wing Frenchman and artist, and will change the way in which Degas is thought about today.

Author : George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas
Publisher : R.S. Means Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art, French
ISBN : 0393019756

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Degas, the Dancers by George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas Pdf

Author : Richard Thomson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362851

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Edgar Degas by Richard Thomson Pdf

Edgar Degas was one of the great pioneers of modern art, and the J. Paul Getty and Norton Simon museums are fortunate to own jointly one of his finest pastels, Waiting (L'Attente), which he made sometime between 1880 and 1882, about midway in his career. In this fascinating monograph, author Richard Thomson explores this brilliant work in detail, revealing both the intricacies of its composition and the source of the emotional pull it immediately exerts upon the viewer. For Waiting is, indeed, an extraordinary object both in its craftsmanship and color and, perhaps most especially, in its aura of ambiguity and even mystery.

Author : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0811802450

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Degas' Dancers by Edgar Degas Pdf

Author : Robert L. Herbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300050837

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Impressionism by Robert L. Herbert Pdf

Examines the use of cafes, opera houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and the seaside in impressionist French paintings