Degas Sculptures PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Degas Sculptures PDF full book. Access full book title Degas Sculptures.
Author | : Joseph S. Czestochowski |
Publisher | : Torch Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bronzes, French |
ISBN | : 9780971640801 |
Download Degas Sculptures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Documenting one of only four complete, "vintage" sets of the bronzes, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents for the first time stunning color images of the sculptures together with the archival photographs taken by Gautier of the original models found in Degas's studio in 1917-1918, and the historic photographs taken fifty years ago by the well-known Swiss art photographer Leonard von Matt." "The essays offer the general reader an exploration of Degas and his sculpture. Included are an interview with Degas himself, introductions to mid-century exhibitions, and reflections of contemporary thinking on the artist, his motivations, and the complex casting history of these works. The appendixes cover the results of extensive recent research into newly available archives, some previously published only in French."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Sculpture |
ISBN | : 9780691148977 |
Download Edgar Degas Sculpture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume presents the sculptures of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Degas is known for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. Although best known as a painter, 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 publicly, though more than one hundred -- of dancers, horses, and bathers -- were found in his studio after he died, all dusty, some fallen apart. This work includes essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death. It features art-historical and technical discussions of every work in the collection as well as concordances and bibliography.
Author | : Theodore Reff |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Painting, French |
ISBN | : 0870991469 |
Download Degas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"More than any other artist in the Impressionist group, Degas was fascinated by ideas and consciously based his work on them. "What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters," he once confessed, "of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing." Yet his work has been understood very inadequately from that point of view. Publications on him, once dominated by memoirs inspired by his remarkable personality, are now concerned with cataloguing and studying limited aspects of his complex art. Its intellectual power and originality, which were evident to contemporary writers like Duranty and Valery, have not been studied sufficiently by more recent critics. It is this side of Degas's art--as seen in his ingenious pictorial strategies and technical innovations, his use of motifs like the window, the mirror, and the picture within the picture, his invention of striking, psychologically compelling compositions, and his creation of a sculptural idiom at once formal and vernacular--that is the subject of these essays. Inevitably, given the range of his intellectual interests, the essays are also concerned with his contacts with leading novelists and poets of his time and his efforts to illustrate or draw inspiration from their works. Throughout, the author makes use of an important, largely unpublished source, the material in Degas's notebooks, on which he has recently published a complete catalogue"--Publisher's description.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Complete Sculptures of DEGAS Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Edgar Degas |
Publisher | : London : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Dancers in art |
ISBN | : |
Download Degas: Sculpture, the Complete Works Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Camille Laurens |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018-11-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1590519590 |
Download Little Dancer Aged Fourteen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, shedding light on the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, or Copenhagen, but where is her grave? We know only her age, fourteen, and the work that she did—because it was already grueling work, at an age when children today are sent to school. In the 1880s, she danced as a “little rat” at the Paris Opera, and what is often a dream for young girls now wasn’t a dream for her. She was fired after several years of intense labor; the director had had enough of her repeated absences. She had been working another job, even two, because the few pennies the Opera paid weren’t enough to keep her and her family fed. She was a model, posing for painters or sculptors—among them Edgar Degas. Drawing on a wealth of historical material as well as her own love of ballet and personal experiences of loss, Camille Laurens presents a compelling, compassionate portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited that shows the importance of those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art.
Author | : Susan Goldman Rubin |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1683354737 |
Download Degas, Painter of Ballerinas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through Edgar Degas’s beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his artwork, Degas captures every moment, from the relentless hours of practice to the glamour of appearing on stage, revealing a dancer’s journey from novice to prima ballerina. Observing young students, Degas drew their poses again and again, determined to achieve perfection. The book includes a brief biography of his entire life, endnotes, bibliography, where to see his paintings, and an index.
Author | : Edgar Degas |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art, French |
ISBN | : 0870995197 |
Download Degas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Katalog towarzyszący wystawom w: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais w Paryżu, 9 luty - 16 maj 1988; National Galery of Canada w Ottawie, 16 czerwiec - 28 sierpień 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art w Nowym Jorku, 27 wrzesień - 8 styczeń 1989.
Author | : Ann Dumas |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0870997971 |
Download The Private Collection of Edgar Degas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume investigates Degas' dual role as both artist and collector. Featuring works by well-known artists like Delacroix, Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cassatt, and others, this publication is the definitive text outlining Degas' long career collecting important pieces by his predecessors as well as his contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author | : Alice Michel |
Publisher | : David Zwirner Books |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1941701558 |
Download Degas and His Model Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English, the text’s original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist’s death, has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We know that Alice was writing under a pseudonym, but who the real person behind this account was remains a mystery—to this day nothing is known about her. Yet, the descriptions seem too accurate to be ignored, the anecdotes too spot-on to discount; even the dialogue captures the artist’s tone and mannerisms. What is found in these pages is at times a woman’s flirtatious recollection of a bizarre “artistic type” and at others a moving attempt to connect with a great, often tragic man. The descriptions are limpid, unburdened; the dialogue is lively and intimate, not unlike reading the very best kind of gossip, with world-historical significance. Here in these dusty studios, Degas is alive, running hands over clay, complaining about his eyes, denigrating the other artists around him, and whispering salaciously to his model. And during his mood swings, we see reflected the model’s innocence and confusion, her pain at being misunderstood and finally rejected. It is an intimate portrait of a moment in a great artist’s life, a sort of Bildungsroman in which his model (whoever she may be) does not emerge unscathed.