Perspectives on Degas

ISBN-13: 9781138316140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

Kathryn Brown

Opis

The first comprehensive assessment of Degas's legacy to be published in over two decades, Perspectives on Degas unites a team of international scholars to analyze Degas's work, artistic practice, and unique methods of pictorial problem-solving.

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Contents

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors

Introduction
Kathryn Brown

Section I Art in context: gender, race, and labour

1 Revisiting Degas: a meditation on women, horses, and nature
Norma Broude

2 Sport and embodiment: Degas’s racecourse scenes
Shao-Chien Tseng

3 Garçon! Waiters, labour, and performance in Edgar Degas’s The Spectators
Mary Hunter

4 The female spectator of modern art and the spectacle of medicalized femininity
Anthea Callen

5 ‘Miss La La’s’ teeth: further reflections on Degas and ‘race’
Marilyn R. Brown

Section II Making and materiality

6 Edgar Degas’s Princess Pauline de Metternich and the phenomenological swirl
Marni Reva Kessler

7 Degas’s sculpture: the inside story
Patricia Failing

8 Pictures in flux: Degas’s monotypes and some notes on their relation to other media
Jonas Beyer

9 Intimacy and exclusion: Degas’s illustrations for Ludovic Halévy’s La Famille Cardinal
Kathryn Brown

Section III ‘Writing’ Degas

10 The collecting practices of Degas and Cassatt: gender and the construction of value in art history
Ruth E. Iskin

11 Degas and subjectivity: from psychoanalysis to the extended mind
Heather Dawkins

12 In his own words: Walter Sickert’s writings on Degas
Anna Gruetzner Robbins

Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Kathryn Brown is a lecturer in modern and contemporary art at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (Ashgate, 2012).