TY - BOOK AU - Crisci-Richardson,Roberta TI - Mapping Degas: Real Spaces, Symbolic Spaces and Invented Spaces in the Life and Work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) SN - 9781443879330 AV - ND553 .D3 U1 - 759.4 PY - 2015/// CY - Newcastle-upon-Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Dance in art KW - Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation KW - Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 KW - Impressionism (Art) -- Themes, motives KW - Impressionist artists KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2076535 ER -