Degas

Download Degas PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870991469
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Degas by : Theodore Reff

Download or read book Degas written by Theodore Reff and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1976 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other artist in the Impressionist group, Degas was fascinated by ideas and consciously based his work on them. "What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters," he once confessed, "of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing." Yet his work has been understood very inadequately from that point of view. Publications on him, once dominated by memoirs inspired by his remarkable personality, are now concerned with cataloguing and studying limited aspects of his complex art. Its intellectual power and originality, which were evident to contemporary writers like Duranty and Valery, have not been studied sufficiently by more recent critics. It is this side of Degas's art--as seen in his ingenious pictorial strategies and technical innovations, his use of motifs like the window, the mirror, and the picture within the picture, his invention of striking, psychologically compelling compositions, and his creation of a sculptural idiom at once formal and vernacular--that is the subject of these essays. Inevitably, given the range of his intellectual interests, the essays are also concerned with his contacts with leading novelists and poets of his time and his efforts to illustrate or draw inspiration from their works. Throughout, the author makes use of an important, largely unpublished source, the material in Degas's notebooks, on which he has recently published a complete catalogue"--Publisher's description.

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

Download The Private Collection of Edgar Degas PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Private Collection of Edgar Degas by : Julie A. Steiner

Download or read book The Private Collection of Edgar Degas written by Julie A. Steiner and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue and its companion volume of essays are published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 1, 1997, to January 11, 1998.

Edgar Degas Sculpture

Download Edgar Degas Sculpture PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691148977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (489 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Edgar Degas Sculpture by : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Download or read book Edgar Degas Sculpture written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the sculptures of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Degas is known for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. Although best known as a painter, his most widely known work is a sculpture, "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen". Executed in wax, near life-sized, dressed in a ballerina's tutu, with real ballet slippers and real hair, the sculpture caused a sensation when it was exhibited in 1881. It is the only sculpture Degas ever showed publicly, though more than one hundred -- of dancers, horses, and bathers -- were found in his studio after he died, all dusty, some fallen apart. This work includes essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death. It features art-historical and technical discussions of every work in the collection as well as concordances and bibliography.

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

Download The Private Collection of Edgar Degas PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870997971
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Private Collection of Edgar Degas by : Ann Dumas

Download or read book The Private Collection of Edgar Degas written by Ann Dumas and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1997 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates Degas' dual role as both artist and collector. Featuring works by well-known artists like Delacroix, Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cassatt, and others, this publication is the definitive text outlining Degas' long career collecting important pieces by his predecessors as well as his contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Edgar Degas, Photographer

Download Edgar Degas, Photographer PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998838
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Edgar Degas, Photographer by : Malcolm R. Daniel

Download or read book Edgar Degas, Photographer written by Malcolm R. Daniel and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dancing with Degas

Download Dancing with Degas PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811840477
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Dancing with Degas by : Julie Merberg

Download or read book Dancing with Degas written by Julie Merberg and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a simple introduction to French artist Edgar Degas and his pastel paintings of ballerinas.

Degas as a Collector

Download Degas as a Collector PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Degas as a Collector by : Ann Dumas

Download or read book Degas as a Collector written by Ann Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edgar Degas, the Private Impressionist

Download Edgar Degas, the Private Impressionist PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615553849
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Edgar Degas, the Private Impressionist by : Robert Flynn Johnson

Download or read book Edgar Degas, the Private Impressionist written by Robert Flynn Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

Download The Private Collection of Edgar Degas PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998374
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Private Collection of Edgar Degas by : Julie A. Steiner

Download or read book The Private Collection of Edgar Degas written by Julie A. Steiner and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1997 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The art collection assembled by Edgar Degas was remarkable not only for its quality, size, and depth but also for its revelation of Degas's artistic affinities. He acquired great numbers of works by the nineteenth-century French masters Ingres, Delacroix, and Daumier; he bought (or bartered his own pictures for) art by many of his contemporaries, particularly Manet, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Cassatt; and he acquired works by a wide range of other artists, from eminent to little known. The extent of Degas's holdings was not recognized until after his death, when the collection came up for auction in Paris in 1918 and, in what was called the sale of the century, was widely dispersed." "Extensive research has made it possible to "reassemble" that collection in book form. This summary catalogue contains information on the more than five thousand works owned by Degas. For each work catalogued the entry includes, to the extent possible: a description with medium and dimensions; provenance information about Degas's acquisition and ownership of the work; information pertaining to the sale of the work in 1918 (or its disposal earlier), including the purchaser, purchase price, and other data; the current location; selected references; and an illustration. In a concordance, collection sale lot numbers are listed with their corresponding summary catalogue numbers." "This catalogue and its companion volume of essays are published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 1, 1997, to January 11, 1998."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Essence of Line

Download The Essence of Line PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0271026820
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Essence of Line by : Jay McKean Fisher

Download or read book The Essence of Line written by Jay McKean Fisher and published by Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely seen drawings and watercolors by some of the most influential French artists of the nineteenth century are the subject of this richly illustrated publication from The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 100 works by artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation. The BMA and the Walters have combined holdings of more than 900 French drawings from the nineteenth century, one of the nation's strongest and richest collections of French art from this period. The publication also includes works from the Peabody Institute Art Collection of the Maryland State Archives. The Essence of Line offers the first comprehensive discussion of the formation of these collections and their significance for the history of French art. The catalogue includes essays by Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston, and Cheryl K. Snay that provide insights into the artistic, commercial, and social functions that drawings served for their creators and collectors, as well as how collecting patterns influenced the development of modernism. Conservator Kimberly Schenck bridges the worlds of the collector and of the artist by examining the production and the use of drawing materials in an epoch of radical changes in technique as well as style. Published on the occasion of an exhibition jointly organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum, this book presents a panorama of sketches, watercolors, and presentation drawings, many of them little known outside a small circle of experts. It is correlated with an online database of more than 900 nineteenth-century French drawings in the holdings of these Baltimore museums.

The Vanished Collection

Download The Vanished Collection PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931991
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Vanished Collection by : Pauline Baer de Perignon

Download or read book The Vanished Collection written by Pauline Baer de Perignon and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engrossing ... The book reads like a detective story."―The Washington Post It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo, and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection. But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents’ elegant Parisian apartment? The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.

Degas and the Ballet

Download Degas and the Ballet PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
ISBN 13 : 9781905711680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (116 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Degas and the Ballet by : Jill Devonyar

Download or read book Degas and the Ballet written by Jill Devonyar and published by Royal Academy Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Degas (18341917) is best known for his luminous studies of dancers. Illustrated with drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of film from the period, this text follows the development of Degas's ballet imagery.

Edgar Degas

Download Edgar Degas PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892362855
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Edgar Degas by : Richard Thomson

Download or read book Edgar Degas written by Richard Thomson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

Download Little Dancer Aged Fourteen PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519590
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by : Camille Laurens

Download or read book Little Dancer Aged Fourteen written by Camille Laurens and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, shedding light on the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, or Copenhagen, but where is her grave? We know only her age, fourteen, and the work that she did—because it was already grueling work, at an age when children today are sent to school. In the 1880s, she danced as a “little rat” at the Paris Opera, and what is often a dream for young girls now wasn’t a dream for her. She was fired after several years of intense labor; the director had had enough of her repeated absences. She had been working another job, even two, because the few pennies the Opera paid weren’t enough to keep her and her family fed. She was a model, posing for painters or sculptors—among them Edgar Degas. Drawing on a wealth of historical material as well as her own love of ballet and personal experiences of loss, Camille Laurens presents a compelling, compassionate portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited that shows the importance of those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art.

Impressionism

Download Impressionism PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300050836
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Impressionism by : Robert L. Herbert

Download or read book Impressionism written by Robert L. Herbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the use of cafes, opera houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and the seaside in impressionist French paintings

Mapping Degas

Download Mapping Degas PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443879339
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Mapping Degas by : Roberta Crisci-Richardson

Download or read book Mapping Degas written by Roberta Crisci-Richardson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Art History and the Impressionist canon seem to have successfully claimed Edgar Degas as a misogynist, rabid nationalist and misanthrope whose art was both masterly and experimental. By analysing Degas’s approach to space and his self-fashioning attitude towards identity within the ambiguities of the political and artistic culture of nineteenth-century France, this book questions the characterisation of Degas as a right-wing Frenchman and artist, and will change the way in which Degas is thought about today.

Degas at the Opera

Download Degas at the Opera PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500023395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Degas at the Opera by : Henri Loyrette

Download or read book Degas at the Opera written by Henri Loyrette and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish new investigation into the Paris Opera’s influence on Edgar Degas's painting. From his debut in the 1860s up to his final works after 1900, the Paris Opera formed a focal point of Edgar Degas's paintings. He explored the theater's various spaces—auditorium and stage, private boxes, foyers, and dance studios—and painted those who frequented them: dancers, singers, orchestral musicians, audience members, and subscribers watching from the wings. This theater presented a microcosm of infinite possibilities, allowing him to experiment with multiple points of view, contrasting lighting, motion, and the precision of movement. This catalog, created in concert with an exhibition at the Muse´e d'Orsay in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, considers the Paris Opera’s influence on Degas as a whole, examining not only his passionate relationship with the house and his musical tastes, but also the infinite resources of the opera's marvelous toolbox. Filled with striking reproductions of Degas’s work and including insightful essays by leading curators and scholars, Degas at the Opera offers admission into the world of Degas and the Paris Opera of the nineteenth century.