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Degas : a new vision

Loyrette, Henri2016
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Although Edgar Degas is one of the most celebrated French Impressionists, he referred to himself as a Realist artist. Modern life in nineteenth-century Paris provided Degas with a repertoire of motifs he explored with endless variation: from scenes of work and industry to ballet and the theatre, racecourses and boudoirs. The works he created over more than fifty years embrace painting, drawing, printmaking, monotypes, sculpture and photography and have had an immense impact on modern and contemporary art. This exquisite and authoritative publication includes the finest recent scholarship by world-renowned Degas expert Henri Loyrette and brings together more than 200 works from a vast number of public and private collections worldwide. Degas: A New Vision offers a fresh and dynamic reappraisal of the artist's mature years when his artistic process became a subject in itself, as he worked and reworked compositions in a fluid manner.
Main title:
Degas : a new vision / Henri Loyrette.
Author:
Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2016.Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2016.©2016
Collation:
xix, 287 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 31 cm.
Notes:
Published for the exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Victoria, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Art Exhibitions Australia ; and held at NGV International, Melbourne, 24 June - 18 September 2016 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 16 October 2016 - 8 January 2017.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781925432121 (paperback)9781925432114 (hardback)
Dewey class:
759.4
Language:
English
BRN:
430716
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
East Melbourne Library-Art and CultureARTS 759.4 DEGAAvailable
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