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Degas and the laundress : women, work, and Impressionism / Britany Salsbury.
Fine Arts Library N6853.D33 A4 2023b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salsbury, Britany, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917--Exhibitions.
- Degas, Edgar.
- Laundresses in art--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Laundresses in art.
- Laundresses--France--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Laundresses.
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.
- France.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven : London : Yale University Press
- Other Title:
- Women, work, and Impressionism
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2023]
- Summary:
- An exploration of Edgar Degas's laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women's work in the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Director's foreword / William Griswold
- Degas and the laundress / Britany Salsbury
- Degas on French textiles, the transatlantic cotton trade, and the word of ironing / Michelle Foa
- The skillful, the social, and the scurrilous: the imagery of the laundress in naturalist painting / Richard Thomson
- Putting people in their place: class and gender in Degas's Paris / Charles Sowerwine
- Working class women, alcohol, and Degas's Women Ironing / Gretchen Schultz
- Idyll to industry: infrastructures of cleanliness in nineteenth-century France / Aleksandra Bursac
- The stench of the people: on the mania for Émile Zola's L'Assommoir / Claire White
- Plates / Britany Salsbury
- Appendixes
- Catalogue raisonné of Degas's laundress works / Britany Salsbury
- Chronology: Degas's life and the Parisian laundry industry, 1785-1919 / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse
- Writings from Degas's time about his laundress works / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse.
- Notes:
- "Published on the occassion of the exhibition of the Degas and the laundress: women, work, and impressionism, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 8, 2023, to January 14, 2024"--title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300273223
- 9780300273229
- OCLC:
- 1375550065
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