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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

Camille Laurens
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen Book PDF

Author : Camille Laurens
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

Arnoldsche,Gregory Hedberg
Degas Little Dancer Aged Fourteen Book PDF

Author : Arnoldsche,Gregory Hedberg
Publisher : Arnoldsche
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Little Dancer

Melanie Leschallas
Little Dancer Book PDF

Author : Melanie Leschallas
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800181212

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Little Dancer by Melanie Leschallas Pdf

Paris, 1878. Ballet dancer Marie van Goethem is chosen by the unknown artist Edgar Degas to model for his new sculpture: Little Dancer, aged fourteen years. But Marie is much more than she seems. By day she’s a 'little rat' of the opera, contorting her starving body to entertain the bourgeoisie. By night she’s plotting to overthrow the government and reinstate the Paris Commune, to keep a promise she made to her father, a leading Communard who died in the street massacres of 1871. As Marie watches the troubling sculpture of herself come to life in Degas’ hands, she falls further into the intoxicating world of bohemian, Impressionist Paris, a world at odds with the socialist principles she has vowed to uphold. With the fifth Impressionist Exhibition looming, a devastating family secret is uncovered which changes everything for both Marie and Degas. As Degas struggles to finish his sculpture and the police close in on Marie, she must decide where her loyalties lie and act to save herself, her family and the Little Dancer.

The Painted Girls

Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Painted Girls Book PDF

Author : Cathy Marie Buchanan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603796

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The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan Pdf

A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. 1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir. Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde. 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.” In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.

Edgar Degas Sculpture

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

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Suzanne G. Lindsay,Daphne Barbour,Shelley Sturman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.

Marie, Dancing

Carolyn Meyer
Marie Dancing Book PDF

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152058796

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Marie, Dancing by Carolyn Meyer Pdf

The life, dreams, and struggles of the fourteen-year-old dancer who posed for Degas's most famous sculpture

Degas and the Little Dancer

Laurence Anholt
Degas and the Little Dancer Book PDF

Author : Laurence Anholt
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184780814X

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Degas and the Little Dancer by Laurence Anholt Pdf

Marie dreams of becoming the most famous ballerina in the world. When she joins the ballet school in Paris, she notices a fierce man sitting at the side, sketching the dancers. The man is the painter, Edgar Degas, and his clay model of Marie does indeed make her the most famous dancer of all.

Degas: Dance, Politics and Society

Adriano Pedrosa
Degas Dance Politics and Society Book PDF

Author : Adriano Pedrosa
Publisher : Delmonico Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.

Ballerina

Deirdre Kelly
Ballerina Book PDF

Author : Deirdre Kelly
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781771640008

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Ballerina by Deirdre Kelly Pdf

Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection--the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century--who often led double lives as concubines--through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800's and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and exploitation have plagued ballerinas throughout history. Using the stories of great dancers such as Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, Evelyn Hart, Marie Camargo, and Misty Copeland, Deirdre Kelly exposes the true rigors for women in ballet. She rounds her critique with examples of how the world of ballet is slowly evolving for the better. But to ensure that this most graceful of dance forms survives into the future, she says that the time has come to rethink ballet, to position the ballerina at its center and accord her the respect she deserves.

Degas, Painter of Ballerinas

Susan Goldman Rubin
Degas Painter of Ballerinas Book PDF

Author : Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683354734

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Degas, Painter of Ballerinas by Susan Goldman Rubin Pdf

Through Edgar Degas’s beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his artwork, Degas captures every moment, from the relentless hours of practice to the glamour of appearing on stage, revealing a dancer’s journey from novice to prima ballerina. Observing young students, Degas drew their poses again and again, determined to achieve perfection. The book includes a brief biography of his entire life, endnotes, bibliography, where to see his paintings, and an index.

Degas and the Ballet

Jill Devonyar,Richard Kendall
Degas and the Ballet Book PDF

Author : Jill Devonyar,Richard Kendall
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1905711689

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Degas and the Ballet by Jill Devonyar,Richard Kendall Pdf

Edgar Degas (18341917) is best known for his luminous studies of dancers. Illustrated with drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of film from the period, this text follows the development of Degas's ballet imagery.

Degas

Theodore Reff
Degas Book PDF

Author : Theodore Reff
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 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.

Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Barbara Burn
Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Book PDF

Author : Barbara Burn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870998492

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Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Barbara Burn Pdf

Each reproduction is accompanied by a text that includes pertinent information about the work.

Picasso Looks at Degas

Elizabeth Cowling,Richard Kendall,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Picasso Looks at Degas Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Cowling,Richard Kendall,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Publisher : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cubism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215498432

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Picasso Looks at Degas by Elizabeth Cowling,Richard Kendall,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Pdf

"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Picasso Looks at Degas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 13 June-12 September 2010, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 14 October 2010-16 January 2011."--T.p. verso.

Dancing for Degas

Kathryn Wagner
Dancing for Degas Book PDF

Author : Kathryn Wagner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 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?