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Edgar Degas Sculpture
Suzanne Glover Lindsay
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Description for Edgar Degas Sculpture
Hardback. As an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Including essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death, this title features art-historical and technical discussions of various works in the collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington. Series: National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues. Num Pages: 408 pages, 221 color illus. 209 halftones. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 291 x 254 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2482.
As an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Allied with the French impressionists through his commitment to portraying modern life, he also took an independent course, preferring line over color and the visible brushstroke, and working in a studio instead of out-of-doors. He is perhaps best known as a painter, but his most widely known work is a sculpture, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Executed in wax, near life-sized, dressed in a ballerina's tutu, with real ballet slippers and real hair, the sculpture caused a sensation when it was exhibited in 1881. It is the only sculpture Degas ever showed ... Read more
As an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Allied with the French impressionists through his commitment to portraying modern life, he also took an independent course, preferring line over color and the visible brushstroke, and working in a studio instead of out-of-doors. He is perhaps best known as a painter, but his most widely known work is a sculpture, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Executed in wax, near life-sized, dressed in a ballerina's tutu, with real ballet slippers and real hair, the sculpture caused a sensation when it was exhibited in 1881. It is the only sculpture Degas ever showed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues
Condition
New
Weight
2482g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691148977
SKU
V9780691148977
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About Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Suzanne Glover Lindsay is adjunct associate professor in the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. Daphne S. Barbour is a senior object conservator at the National Gallery of Art. Shelley G. Sturman is head of object conservation at the National Gallery of Art.
Reviews for Edgar Degas Sculpture
"Edgar Degas Sculpture is the sumptuously illustrated, richly documented catalogue of the important collection of Degas sculpture in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C... [A] penetrating, eye-opening presentation of Degas' work in this other medium, which too often is relegated to the sideline of his work as a painter."
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