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Edgar Degas / Patrick Bade.
Fine Arts Library ND553.D3 B344 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bade, Patrick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917--Criticism and interpretation.
- Degas, Edgar.
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.
- Impressionism (Art)--France.
- Impressionism (Art).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 113 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Parkstone, [2000]
- Summary:
- Edgar Degas', (1834-1917), ballet dancers and late nudes constitute one of the peaks of nineteenth-century art. Contemporaries described Degas' nudes in terms of excited horror: "Crouching, gourd-like women fill the bathtubs ... who are these women? Whores or housewives? Nobody knows. But instead of dramatizing the figure's nakedness, Degas discreetly allows her to carry on with her essentially private activities, unobserved and therefore uninhibited and this "keyhole" depiction has attracted so much hostile attention from his contempories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 112) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859957153
- OCLC:
- 47788589
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