Perspectives on Degas

Herausgeber: Brown, Kathryn

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive assessment of Degas's legacy to be published in over two decades, Perspectives on Degas unites a team of international scholars to analyze Degas's work, artistic practice, and unique methods of pictorial problem-solving.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 180mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781472439970
• ISBN-10: 147243997X
• Artikelnr.: 46164988

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Brown is a lecturer in modern and contemporary art at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 (Ashgate, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Kathryn Brown
Section I Art in context: gender, race, and labour
1 Revisiting Degas: a meditation on women, horses, and nature
Norma Broude
2 Sport and embodiment: Degas's racecourse scenes
Shao-Chien Tseng
3 Garçon! Waiters, labour, and performance in Edgar Degas's The Spectators
Mary Hunter
4 The female spectator of modern art and the spectacle of medicalized
femininity
Anthea Callen
5 'Miss La La's' teeth: further reflections on Degas and 'race'
Marilyn R. Brown
Section II Making and materiality
6 Edgar Degas's Princess Pauline de Metternich and the phenomenological
swirl
Marni Reva Kessler
7 Degas's sculpture: the inside story
Patricia Failing
8 Pictures in flux: Degas's monotypes and some notes on their relation to
other media
Jonas Beyer
9 Intimacy and exclusion: Degas's illustrations for Ludovic Halévy's La
Famille Cardinal
Kathryn Brown
Section III 'Writing' Degas
10 The collecting practices of Degas and Cassatt: gender and the
construction of value in art history
Ruth E. Iskin
11 Degas and subjectivity: from psychoanalysis to the extended mind
Heather Dawkins
12 In his own words: Walter Sickert's writings on Degas
Anna Gruetzner Robbins
Bibliography
Index