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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.
List of contents
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Kathryn Brown
Section I Art in context: gender, race, and labour1 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 materiality6 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' Degas10 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
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
