The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas
throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this
subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and
dancers. "Degas and the Nude" is the first book in a generation to
explore the artist''s treatment of the nude from his early years in
the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s,
all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his
artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics,
the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas'' evolving
conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject''s broader
context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of
reproductions is one of the most important of Degas'' early
paintings, "Scene of War in the Middle Ages", which exerted a
lifelong influence on the artist''s treatment of the female nude and
includes poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are
monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas'' most
explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and
pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided.
Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of
virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the
evolution of this master artist.
目錄：
Directors'' Foreword
Acknowledgments
Lucian Freud Talks about Degas
MARTIN GAYFORD
Introduction
GEORGE T. M, SHACKELFORD AND
XAVIER REY
The Classical Body: Degas''s Beginnings
ANNE ROQUEBERT
The Body in Peril: Scene of War in the Middle Ages
GEORGE T. M. SHACKELFORD
The Body Exploited: Degas''s BrothelWorks
XAVIER REY
The Body Observed: Degas''s Naturalist Nudes
XAVIER REY
The Body Exhibited: Degas''s Nudes in the 1880s
GEORGE T. M. SHACKELFORD
The Body Transformed: Degas''s Last Nudes
GEORGE T. M. SHACKELFORD
Epilogue
GEORGE T. M. SHACKELFORD
List of Illustrations
Notes
Select Bibliography
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