Anne Robbins, Chiara Di Stefano

Discover Degas & Miss La La

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The extraordinary story behind Degasâ s groundbreaking painting of the biracial circus performer Miss La La

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Gallery Company Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 251mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781857097146
• ISBN-10: 1857097149
• Artikelnr.: 69241887

Autorenporträt

Anne Robbins and Chiara Di Stefano; With contributions by Laurie Fierstein, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Denise Murrell, Isolde Pludermacher, and Christopher Riopelle

Inhaltsangabe

Prelims (half title/title/colophon, contents)
Director’s foreword
 
Preface: Miss La La, Black model (Denise Murrell & Isolde Pludermacher)
 
Essays
1. Degas and Miss La La: genesis of the picture and overview of the
painting’s history (Anne Robbins)
2. Imagery of the acrobat in fin-de-siècle Paris (Chiara Di Stefano)
3. Degas, New Orleans and the question of ‘race’ (Darcy Grimaldo
Grigsby)
 
Catalogue section
With 6 short section introductions, followed by images of the 45 exhibited
works.
1.  Miss La La: Background and success (Laurie Fierstein)
2.  Cirque Fernando in Paris: circus and avant-garde (Chiara Di Stefano)
3.  Watching, drawing, posing Miss La La: elaboration of the painting (Anne
Robbins)
4.  Miss La La, 1879: from performance to exhibition (Anne Robbins)
5.  Degas and ‘the Black world’ (Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby)
6.  The painting’s afterlife: exhibitions, travels and influence
(Christopher Riopelle)
 
Endmatter
Chronology (Anne Robbins, Laurie Fierstein and Chiara Di Stefano)
Notes
Bibliography
List of lenders, Acknowledgements