Crisci-Richardson, Roberta.

Mapping Degas : Real Spaces, Symbolic Spaces and Invented Spaces in the Life and Work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917). - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (394 pages)

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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.

9781443879330


Dance in art.
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.
Impressionism (Art) -- Themes, motives.
Impressionist artists.


Electronic books.

ND553 .D3

759.4