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Author : Bernd Growe,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 382281136X
An introduction to the life and work of nineteenth-century French artist Edgar Degas, discussing his cultural and historical importance, and including a chronology and over one hundred color illustrations with explanatory captions.
Author : Michael Robinson
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783619945
French artist Edgar Degas was famous for his drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Although a member of the Impressionists, with Monet, Pissaro and Renoir his work focused on indoor subjects, particularly his acutely observed pieces on ballerinas. His masterful studies of real life resonate still today and he remains one of the most popular painters in the world. This beautiful new book showcases all of his major works (including Ballet Rehearsal, The Star and The Ballet Class), with detailed captions, and a long essay on life, art and influences.
Author : Richard Thomson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362851
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 : Alice Michel
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701553
There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English, the text’s original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist’s death, has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We know that Alice was writing under a pseudonym, but who the real person behind this account was remains a mystery—to this day nothing is known about her. Yet, the descriptions seem too accurate to be ignored, the anecdotes too spot-on to discount; even the dialogue captures the artist’s tone and mannerisms. What is found in these pages is at times a woman’s flirtatious recollection of a bizarre “artistic type” and at others a moving attempt to connect with a great, often tragic man. The descriptions are limpid, unburdened; the dialogue is lively and intimate, not unlike reading the very best kind of gossip, with world-historical significance. Here in these dusty studios, Degas is alive, running hands over clay, complaining about his eyes, denigrating the other artists around him, and whispering salaciously to his model. And during his mood swings, we see reflected the model’s innocence and confusion, her pain at being misunderstood and finally rejected. It is an intimate portrait of a moment in a great artist’s life, a sort of Bildungsroman in which his model (whoever she may be) does not emerge unscathed.
Author : Julie A. Steiner,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870998379
"The art collection assembled by Edgar Degas was remarkable not only for its quality, size, and depth but also for its revelation of Degas's artistic affinities. He acquired great numbers of works by the nineteenth-century French masters Ingres, Delacroix, and Daumier; he bought (or bartered his own pictures for) art by many of his contemporaries, particularly Manet, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Cassatt; and he acquired works by a wide range of other artists, from eminent to little known. The extent of Degas's holdings was not recognized until after his death, when the collection came up for auction in Paris in 1918 and, in what was called the sale of the century, was widely dispersed." "Extensive research has made it possible to "reassemble" that collection in book form. This summary catalogue contains information on the more than five thousand works owned by Degas. For each work catalogued the entry includes, to the extent possible: a description with medium and dimensions; provenance information about Degas's acquisition and ownership of the work; information pertaining to the sale of the work in 1918 (or its disposal earlier), including the purchaser, purchase price, and other data; the current location; selected references; and an illustration. In a concordance, collection sale lot numbers are listed with their corresponding summary catalogue numbers." "This catalogue and its companion volume of essays are published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 1, 1997, to January 11, 1998."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Jennifer R. Gross,Suzanne Boorsch,Yale University. Art Gallery
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300100043
Through his representation of modern subjects such as ballet dancers and race horses, his constant questioning of traditional artistic practices, and his vital engagement with Parisian society, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) helped to define the beginnings of modernism in visual culture at the end of the nineteenth century. This engaging book yields new scholarship on works by Degas in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery and provides in-depth discussion of works of art in every medium explored by this innovative artist. Extended entries by distinguished scholars including Richard Kendall and Edgar Munhall provide a complete review of the artist's working methods. The book also introduces several important pieces by Degas that have rarely been available for view by the public, including a notable wax figure and several unique prints and works on paper.
Author : Annette Roeder
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9783791370644
Big art for little hands, this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the world of Degas' masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.
Author : Julie Merberg,Suzanne Bober
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0811840476
Provides a simple introduction to French artist Edgar Degas and his pastel paintings of ballerinas.
Author : Malcolm R. Daniel,Edgar Degas,Bibliothèque nationale de France
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780870998836
Degas's major surviving photographs, little known even among devotees of the artist's paintings and pastels, are analyzed and reproduced for the first time in this volume, which accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Muscum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
Author : Ann Dumas,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870997976
This volume investigates Degas' dual role as both artist and collector. Featuring works by well-known artists like Delacroix, Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cassatt, and others, this publication is the definitive text outlining Degas' long career collecting important pieces by his predecessors as well as his contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Annabelle Thornhill
Publisher : Osmora Incorporated
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782765907565
Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of "Impressionist," preferring to call himself a "Realist" or "Independent." Nevertheless, he was one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its most important core members. Like the Impressionists, he sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life, yet he showed little interest in painting plain air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafes illuminated by artificial light, which he used to clarify the contours of his figures, adhering to his Academic training. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He also was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterful in depicting movement, as can be seen in his interpretations of dancers and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation.
Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606063278
"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Thames & Hudson Ltd."--Title page verso.
Author : Richard ( Editor ) Kendall,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0316728101
Author : Denys Sutton
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015000017948
Contains reproductions of the artist's work, extracts from his correspondence, and a study of the artist's personality and work.
Author : George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas,Xavier Rey,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nude in art
ISBN : 0500093628
The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.