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Degas et le nu / [sous la direction de George T.M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey ; avec des contributions de Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Anne Roquebert].
Fine Arts Library N6853.D33 A4 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917--Exhibitions.
- Degas, Edgar.
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.
- Female nude in art--Exhibitions.
- Female nude in art.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Musée d'Orsay : Hazan, [2012]
- Language Note:
- In French.
- Summary:
- "Degas et le nu" explores 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 American and French critics, it provides a new interpretation of Degas' evolving conception of the nude, situating it in the subject's broader context among his peers in nineteenth-century France. It explores how Degas exploited all of the body's expressive possibilities, how his vision of the nude informed his notion of modernity, and how he abandoned the classical or historical form in favor of a figure seen in her own time and setting--whether engaged in overtly carnal acts or just stepping out of an ordinary bath.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 9, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012; and Musée d'Orsay, Paris, March 13-July 1, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9782354330699
- 2354330693
- 9782754106139
- 2754106138
- OCLC:
- 782955312
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