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Degas, Manet, Morisot / Paul Valéry ; translated by David Paul ; with an introduction by Douglas Cooper.
LIBRA - Special PQ2643.A26 A23 1989 vol. 12
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945.
- Series:
- Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945. English. 1989 ; Works. v. 12.
- The Collected works of Paul Valéry ; v. 12
- Bollingen series ; XLV, 12
- Bollingen series ; XLV, 12.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917--Criticism and interpretation.
- Degas, Edgar.
- Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883--Criticism and interpretation.
- Manet, Édouard.
- Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895--Criticism and interpretation.
- Morisot, Berthe.
- Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895.
- Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883.
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.
- Art--Themes, motives.
- Art.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 261 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- This volume presents the full text of the author's book on Degas, with a long essay on Corot, others on Berthe Morisot, Manet, and Daumier, a personal recollection of Renoir, and writings on sculpture, portraiture, Italian painting, and several minor arts.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Douglas Cooper
- pt. 1: Degas dance drawing. Degas
- The dance
- 37, Rue Victor-Masse
- Degas and the revolution
- Asides
- 22nd of October 1905
- Seeing and copying
- Work and beware
- Horse, dancer, photograph
- The ground and the formless
- The nude
- Degas and politics
- Mime
- Digression
- Further digression
- Degas the sonneteer
- Mad about drawing
- Further to the above
- A moral
- Sin of envy
- Obiter dicta and odd remarks
- More obiter dicta
- Reflections on landscape and many other things
- Modern art and great art
- Epitome of painting
- Romanticism
- Drawing is not the same as form
- Recollections of Degas / Berthe Morisot
- The Arts and their language
- Questions of period
- Reminiscences / M. Ernest Rouart
- Twilight and ending
- pt. 2: The triumph of Manet
- Berthe Morisot
- "Tante Berthe"
- A recollection of Renoir
- About Corot
- Honore Daumier
- pt. 3: Variations on the theme of ceramic painting
- On the pre-eminent dignity of the arts of fire
- Embroideries by Marie Monnier
- My bust
- Art and likeness
- On portraits
- On the nude
- The problem of museums
- The Fabre Museum
- Notes on some paintings
- Woodcuts by Beloborodoff
- The frescoes of Veronese
- On Italian art
- Appendix: Busts by Houdon recently discovered at Versailles.
- Notes:
- Translation of "Degas, danse, dessin," and other essays originally published separately.
- "First Princeton paperback printing, 1989"--Verso of t.p. Originally published in 1960.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
- Source: Gift of Princeton University Press, Aug. 10, 1989.
- Contains:
- Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945. Degas, danse, dessin. English
- ISBN:
- 0691018820
- 9780691018829
- OCLC:
- 18961048
- Online:
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