The Sculpture Of Edgar Degas

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Suzanne G. Lindsay,Daphne Barbour,Shelley Sturman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : 49,6 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 : 49,8 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 : Charles W. Millard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Sculpture, French
ISBN : 059805734X

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The Sculpture of Edgar Degas by Charles W. Millard Pdf

Author : Alice Michel
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Charles W. Milland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1005897646

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The Sculpture of Edgar Degas by Charles W. Milland Pdf

Author : Arnoldsche,Gregory Hedberg
Publisher : Arnoldsche
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Edgar Degas,John Rewald
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : 44,9 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 : Richard Thomson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas,Xavier Rey,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nude in art
ISBN : 0500093628

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Degas and the Nude by George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas,Xavier Rey,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

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.

Author : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Sculpture, French
ISBN : UOM:39015080334033

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Degas by Edgar Degas Pdf

Author : Karen Wilkin,Dominique H. Vasseur
Publisher : Institute
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056229647

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Edgar Degas by Karen Wilkin,Dominique H. Vasseur Pdf

Author : H. G. E. Degas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486139364

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Degas' Drawings by H. G. E. Degas Pdf

Carefully reproduced from a rare 1923 limited edition, most of these magnificent drawings are unavailable elsewhere in published form. Dancers, nudes, portraits, travel scenes, and more. 100 drawings, including 8 in full color.

Author : Denys Sutton
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015000017948

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Edgar Degas, Life and Work by Denys Sutton Pdf

Contains reproductions of the artist's work, extracts from his correspondence, and a study of the artist's personality and work.