Degas and the Nude /anglais - Couverture rigide

Shackelford, George

 
9780500093627: Degas and the Nude /anglais
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0500093628 ISBN 13 : 9780500093627
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

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.
Exhibition organised by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée d'Orsay
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, from 9 October 2011 to 5 February 2012
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, from 13 March to 1 July 2012

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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.
Exhibition organised by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée d'Orsay
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, from 9 October 2011 to 5 February 2012
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, from 13 March to 1 July 2012

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Éditeur
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0500093628
ISBN 13 
9780500093627
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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