Degas : dance, politics and society / edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Fernando Oliva ; texts by Adriano Pedrosa [and ten others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917, artist.

Pedrosa, Adriano, editor.

Oliva, Fernando, editor.

Borges, Sofia, 1984- photographer.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917--Exhibitions.

Degas, Edgar.

Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

Borges, Sofia, 1984---Exhibitions.

Borges, Sofia.

Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.

Ballet dancers in art--Exhibitions.

Ballet dancers in art.

Ballet dancers--France--Social conditions--19th century--Exhibitions.

Ballet dancers.

Art and society--France--History--19th century--Exhibitions.

Art and society.

Photography of sculpture--Exhibitions.

Photography of sculpture.

History.

Social conditions.

Themes, motives.

France.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

343 pages : illustrations ; 29 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

São Paulo, Brazil : Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2021.

Summary:

This substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is a decisive contribution to the literature on the French Impressionist artist. An innovative and groundbreaking book, with underlying discussions related to "dance, politics and society," it pays special attention to issues of gender, identity, labor, race and the representation of women. Degas worked in various mediums, and, at the end of his life, left around 6,000 works, including 2,000 related to the world of dance and ballet. The contradictions and ambiguities of his art, especially the way he straddles both tradition and modernity, reaffirm both his uniqueness and significance in the history of Western art. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society includes ten essays, never before published, by experts around the world, and also features a visual essay of black-and-white photographs of the bronze sculptures, including Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by the Brazilian artist Sofia Borges. Through her camera, Borges reinterprets and conceives new images of Degas' most cherished and classic sculptures. Borges' extraordinary photographs reveal, transform and revisit Degas' works in an innovative and radical manner. Exhibition: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (12.04.2020-08.01.2021).

Contents:

Degas and Borges at MASP / Adriano Pedrosa and Heitor Martins

Degas : dance, politics and society / Adriano Pedrosa and Fernando Oliva

Essay on a sculpture / Sofia Borges

Degas's alleged misogyny : the resilience of a cultural myth / Norma Broude

Degas and gender relations at the Opéra de Paris / Leïla Jarbouai

"Little dancer aged fourteen" : from mannequin to bibelot / Ana Magalhães

"Elles me détestent" : Degas and women, Blacks, and Jews / Fernando Oliva

Degas's images of working women : modernity in motion / Susan Tenneriello

Degas : digging the dirt / Anthea Callen

Looping and weaving time / Leslie Dick

Through the painter's lens : photography and Degas's dancers / Raisa Rexer

From one Degas to the other : Mademoiselle Malot, dancer at the Opéra / Isolde Pludermacher.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil, December 4, 2020-August 1, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (page 335).

ISBN:

9781636810041

1636810047

OCLC:

1256542620