Edgar Degas Sculpture

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Suzanne G. Lindsay,Daphne Barbour,Shelley Sturman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sculpture
ISBN : 069114897X

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Edgar Degas Sculpture by National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Suzanne G. Lindsay,Daphne Barbour,Shelley Sturman Pdf

This volume presents the sculptures of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Degas is known for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. Although best known as a painter, his most widely known work is a sculpture, "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen". Executed in wax, near life-sized, dressed in a ballerina's tutu, with real ballet slippers and real hair, the sculpture caused a sensation when it was exhibited in 1881. It is the only sculpture Degas ever showed publicly, though more than one hundred -- of dancers, horses, and bathers -- were found in his studio after he died, all dusty, some fallen apart. This work includes essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death. It features art-historical and technical discussions of every work in the collection as well as concordances and bibliography.

Author : Michael Robinson
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783619945

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Edgar Degas Masterpieces of Art by Michael Robinson Pdf

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 : Camille Laurens
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Julie A. Steiner,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870998379

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The Private Collection of Edgar Degas by Julie A. Steiner,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

"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 : Arnoldsche,Gregory Hedberg
Publisher : Arnoldsche
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 389790392X

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Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Arnoldsche,Gregory Hedberg Pdf

Beginning with the hitherto unknown plaster version of Edgar Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, Dr. Gregory Hedberg undertakes a comprehensive re-evaluation of the significance and influence of this work of modern art.

Author : Charles W. Millard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Sculpture, French
ISBN : 059805734X

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The Sculpture of Edgar Degas by Charles W. Millard Pdf

Author : Edgar Degas,John Rewald
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Dancers in art
ISBN : UOM:39015016616370

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Degas: Sculpture, the Complete Works by Edgar Degas,John Rewald Pdf

Author : Jp Calosse
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644618233

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) by Jp Calosse Pdf

Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. His career was long and his style, unlike that of most famous artists who worked into their old age, never ceased developing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism and is especially identified with the subject of dance (over half of his works depict dancers such as The Dance Class or the sculpture Little Ballet Dancer). These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his less common themes of horse racing and female nudes (After the Bath). His portraits are considered to be among the finest in the history of art. His work was strongly influenced by Ingres and Delacroix combining the expressive qualities of Ingres with the colour of Delacroix.

Author : Alice Michel
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701553

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Degas and His Model by Alice Michel Pdf

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 : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Sculpture, French
ISBN : UOM:39015080334033

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Degas by Edgar Degas Pdf

Author : Theodore Reff
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Painting, French
ISBN : 9780870991462

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Degas by Theodore Reff Pdf

"More than any other artist in the Impressionist group, Degas was fascinated by ideas and consciously based his work on them. "What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters," he once confessed, "of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing." Yet his work has been understood very inadequately from that point of view. Publications on him, once dominated by memoirs inspired by his remarkable personality, are now concerned with cataloguing and studying limited aspects of his complex art. Its intellectual power and originality, which were evident to contemporary writers like Duranty and Valery, have not been studied sufficiently by more recent critics. It is this side of Degas's art--as seen in his ingenious pictorial strategies and technical innovations, his use of motifs like the window, the mirror, and the picture within the picture, his invention of striking, psychologically compelling compositions, and his creation of a sculptural idiom at once formal and vernacular--that is the subject of these essays. Inevitably, given the range of his intellectual interests, the essays are also concerned with his contacts with leading novelists and poets of his time and his efforts to illustrate or draw inspiration from their works. Throughout, the author makes use of an important, largely unpublished source, the material in Degas's notebooks, on which he has recently published a complete catalogue"--Publisher's description.

Author : Karen Wilkin,Dominique H. Vasseur
Publisher : Institute
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056229647

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Edgar Degas by Karen Wilkin,Dominique H. Vasseur Pdf

Author : Marisa Anne Bass,Anne Goldgar,Hanneke Grootenboer,Claudia Swan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691248592

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Conchophilia by Marisa Anne Bass,Anne Goldgar,Hanneke Grootenboer,Claudia Swan Pdf

"A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--

Author : Richard Thomson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Charles W. Milland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1005897646

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The Sculpture of Edgar Degas by Charles W. Milland Pdf