[PDF] The Notebooks Of Edgar Degas eBook

Author : Alice Michel
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1941701558

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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.

Author : Julie Merberg
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780811840477

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Provides a simple introduction to French artist Edgar Degas and his pastel paintings of ballerinas.

Author : H. G. E. Degas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486139360

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Carefully reproduced from a rare 1923 limited edition, most of these magnificent drawings are unavailable elsewhere in published form. Dancers, nudes, portraits, travel scenes, and more. 100 drawings, including 8 in full color.

Author : Theodore Reff
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Painting, French
ISBN : 0870991469

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"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 : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606063279

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"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Thames & Hudson Ltd."--Title page verso.

Author : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Chartwell
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Degas by himself is a collection of the words and the art of Edgar Degas (1834-1917). The intention of the book is to present a full, rounded and, in places, unfamiliar view of the artist and his achievements, with particular emphasis on his views and intentions as revealed in his use of the written and spoken word.