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Zusatztext "The reader will find countless insights into many of the artist's main motifs! from his portraits and equestrian images to his pictures and sculptures of ballet dancers! laundresses! bathers! brothels! and café-concerts. One also learns about many of the stages of the artist's nearly fifty-year-long career and the wide array of two- and three-dimensional media with which he worked. This important volume makes clear how fertile the field of Degas studies continues to be! thus providing a testament to the achievements of the contributors and the artist alike."--Nineteenth-Century French Studies Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
