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Degas
by Edgar Degas
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183 editions published between 1914 and 2007 in 9 languages and held by 4,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This richly illustrated volume traces the life and work of Degas. A testament to the genius of this leader of the French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements
Degas : beyond impressionism
by Richard Kendall
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1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 1,315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The first publication on Degas's mature work ... presents a new and definitive view of his last decades ... drawings, pastels, oil paintings, and sculptures." --Dust jacket
The sculpture of Edgar Degas
by Charles W Millard
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3 editions published between 1976 and 1979 in English and held by 971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Degas and the dance
by Jill DeVonyar
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6 editions published between 1979 and 2002 in English and held by 969 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Seeks to illuminate the themes present in the artist's works, presenting new material about Degas's highly informed relationship with the ballet of the nineteenth century
Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago
by Richard R Brettell
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3 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 853 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
I dreamed I was a ballerina
by Anna Pavlova
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2 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The story of a girl's first trip to the ballet and the dreams it inspired; leading her to become a legendary ballerina
Looking into Degas : uneasy images of women and modern life
by Eunice Lipton
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4 editions published between 1986 and 1988 in English and held by 812 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Edgar Degas, photographer
by Malcolm R Daniel
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7 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and French and held by 642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Degas's major surviving photographs, little known even among devotees of the artist's paintings and pastels, are analyzed and reproduced for the first time in this volume, which accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Muscum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France."--BOOK JACKET
Degas : a dialogue of difference
by Werner Hofmann
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 569 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Here is a comprehensive overview of the pioneering work of Edgar Degas. Packed with over 200 illustrations, it explores the pictorial world of the man whose formal innovations, commitment to realism and the exploration of both the light and dark sides of contemporary society foreshadowed the art of the 20th century, with Hofmann bringing his own surprising new insights to many of Degas's best-known works. Degas regularly took part in the Impressionists' group exhibitions but followed his own path from the start. In contrast to the sense of harmony pursued by his fellow painters, he produced images of the social world, charged with tension. He depicted the brittle nature of bourgeois life and relationships, and explored the marginal areas of society, where his artistic gaze fell predominantly upon female subjects: washerwomen and seamstresses, dancers and prostitutes. Degas portrayed these women at work and at rest, with others and alone, with a striking focus on the female body in all its forms: decorated, desired, bought and sold, and--only occasionally--liberated. This interest in human isolation and alienation led to formal experiments in which Degas broke with the strict rules of central perspective to create a sense of unbalance and unease. Werner Hofmann's penetrating analysis is interspersed with insights into Degas's bourgeois background, and his artistic trajectory is placed within the context of the major currents of 19th-century art, with David, Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet and the Impressionists among the key points of reference. In this way, we see not only the traditions that influenced him but also his striking individuality and spirit of innovation, which forged a new artistic path into the 20th century
Degas, the dancers
by George T. M Shackelford
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5 editions published between 1984 and 1994 in English and held by 561 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Degas : impressions of a great master
by Gerhard Gruitrooy
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6 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in English and held by 545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Degas and The Little Dancer
by Richard Kendall
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3 editions published in 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 520 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Degas/Lautrec
by Edgar Degas
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6 editions published between 1967 and 1969 in 3 languages and held by 475 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Degas : the painted gesture
by Jacqueline Loumaye
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1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 469 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Eight school children attend an art workshop at the Orsay Museum in Paris discovering paintings of Edgar Degas
The Unquiet spirit the life and art of Edgar Degas, 1834-1917
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3 editions published between 1980 and 2012 in English and held by 468 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Explores the life and work of Edgar Degas and how his style, though realistic, developed from a traditional base and was influenced by the cafe society of Paris. Discusses his interest in the human form and how he portrays women as real people engaged in mundane activities. Presents many original paintings, drawings and prints to show Degas' favorite settings--the ballet class, racecourse, railway--and to explain his innovative use of the camera
A Degas sketchbook
by Carol M Armstrong
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2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 463 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Reproduces all of the significant pages from Degas's 1877 sketchbook, placing Degas both within the context of the cultivated salon of the Halévy family and the larger world of late 19th-century Paris
Degas
by Antoine Terrasse
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6 editions published between 1974 and 2003 in English and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Edgar Degas : Waiting
by Richard Thomson
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6 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Edgar Degas was one of the great pioneers of modern art, and the J. Paul Getty and Norton Simon museums are fortunate to own jointly one of his finest pastels, Waiting (L'Attente), which he made sometime between 1880 and 1882, about midway in his career. In this fascinating monograph, author Richard Thomson explores this brilliant work in detail, revealing both the intricacies of its composition and the source of the emotional pull it immediately exerts upon the viewer. For Waiting is, indeed, an extraordinary object both in its craftsmanship and color and, perhaps most especially, in its aura of ambiguity and even mystery
Edgar-Hilaire Germain Degas (1834-1917)
by Bernd Growe
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32 editions published between 1952 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 408 WorldCat member libraries worldwide HISTORY OF ART / ART & DESIGN STYLES. Degas's mastery in the depiction of movement "No art could be less spontaneous than mine. Inspiration, spontaneity, temperament are unknown to me. One has to do the same subject ten times, even a hundred times over. In art, nothing should look like chance, not even movement." --Edgar Degas. In terms of both theme and technique, the key to understanding the early work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is classical painting. Although he was eventually associated with the Impressionists and even participated in their joint exhibitions, Degas never adopted a purely Impressionist approach. Degas's work, reflecting an extremely personal and psychological perspective, emphasizes the scenic or concentrates on the detail. Thus, Degas's painting is often discussed with reference to the rise of short-exposure photography. Thematically, nature proved less interesting to the artist than the life and inhabitants of the modern metropolis
Degas and the business of art : a cotton office in New Orleans
by Marilyn Brown
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6 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Edgar Degas's painting entitled A Cotton Office in New Orleans is one of the most significant images of nineteenth-century capitalism, in part because it was the first painting by an Impressionist to be purchased by a museum. Drawing upon archival materials, Marilyn R. Brown explores the accumulated social meanings of the work in light of shifting audiences and changing market conditions and assesses the artist's complicated relationship to the business of art. Despite the financial failure of the actual cotton firm he represented, Degas carefully constructed his picture with a particular buyer - a British textile manufacturer - in mind. However, world events, including an international stock market crash and declines in the market for cotton and art, destroyed his hopes for this sale. It was under these circumstances that the canvas was exhibited in the second Impressionist show in Paris in 1876. While it received a more positive response than other works exhibited, its success was with the conservative audience. After considerable difficulty, Degas finally succeeded in selling the painting in 1878 to the newly founded museum in the city of Pau. The painting was probably regarded as an appropriate homage to the old textile manufacturing family who funded its purchase. It also appealed to "progressive" provincial and more cosmopolitan audiences in Pau. The picture's scattered form and atomized figures - in which some interpreters today read evidence of the artist's own ambivalence about capitalism - seemingly contributed to its "innovative" cachet in Pau. But the private and public meanings of the painting had shifted, in discontinuous fashion, between its production and consumption. Under the circumstances, Degas's unfixed and even mixed messages about business became, among other things, his most successful (if unwitting) marketing strategy. The official recognition Degas received in Pau in 1878 heralded the gradual upswing of his own financial status during the 1880s, but his attitudes toward success remained mixed more
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De Gas, Edgar, 1834-1917
de Gas, Hilaire Germain Edgar
De Gas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar, 1834-1917
Dega, Ėdgar
Dega, Ėdgar, 1834-1917
Degā, Ilērs Žermēns Edgars, 1834-1917
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Degas, E. M. 1834-1917
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Degas, Edgar Germain Hilaire
Degas, Edgar H. 1834-1917
Degas, Edgar Hilaire Germain
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Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar
Degas, Hilaire Germain Edgar, 1834-1917
Degas, Hilaire-Germain Edgard 1834-1917
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Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
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