Degas - a passion for perfection / Jane Munro.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2017Description: 269 pages : Colour IllustrationsContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300228236
- 0300228236
- 759.4 DEG
- N6853.D33 D44 2017
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.4 DEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100632232 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A beautiful celebration of six decades of work by Edgar Degas, published in the centennial year of the artist's death
Edgar Degas's (1834-1917) relentless experimentation with technical procedures is a hallmark of his lifelong desire to learn. The numerous iterations of compositions and poses suggest an intense self-discipline, as well as a refusal to accept any creative solution as definitive or finite. Published in the centenary year of the artist's death, this book presents an exceptional array of Degas's work, including paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, counter proofs, and sculpture, with approximately sixty key works from private and public collections in Europe and the United States, some of them published here for the first time. Shown together, the impressive works represent well over half a century of innovation and artistic production.
Essays by leading Degas scholars and conservation scientists explore his practice and recurring themes of the human figure and landscape. The book opens with a study of Degas's debt to the Old Masters, and it concludes with a consideration of his artistic legacy and his influence on leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Ryan Gander, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, R. B. Kitaj, Pablo Picasso, and Walter Sickert.
Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Exhibition Schedule:
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
(10/3/17-1/14/18)
Denver Art Museum
(02/18/18-05/20/18)
This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Degas: A passion for perfection', organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in association with Denver Art Museum, on view at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 3 October 2017 to 14 January 2018 and at Denver Art Museum from 18 February to 20 May 2018
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Degas and England / Richard Kendall -- Copying and Learning / Jane Munro -- Degas's Greasy Ink Drawings / Timothy J. Standring -- Nudes / Jane Munro -- Landscapes / Jane Munro -- At the Cafe : painting in focus / Jane Munro -- Degas, Classicism, Dance / Jill de Vonyar -- The Sculpture of Degas : production and reproduction / Victoria Avery and Jo Dillon -- After Degas / Anna Gruetzner Robins.