Degas [Hardcover]

Robert Gordon (Author), Andrew Forge (Author), Edgar Degas (Other Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1988

The authors of Abrams' highly successful Monet and The Last Flowers of Manet have made the definitive book on the French Impressionist Edgar Degas. The New York Observer said, "In the wonderfully readable text . . . we are put in very intimate touch with the artist's own sensibility. . . . This is a book notto be missed". 324 illustrations, 121 in full color. 2 gatefolds.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this tony album, Degas's paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures are grouped thematically in six chapterstheater, horses, portraits, pantomime, dancers, batherseach prefaced by a short biographical sketch. This arrangement follows the authors' sometimes vague interpretations; "Pantomime," for example, splices brothel scenes, a woman in her bathtub and shimmering impressionist landscapes. Gordon and Forge, coauthors of Monet and The Last Flowers of Manet , are primarily concerned here with formalist esthetics. They show how Degas's preoccupation with theater and ballet gave him opportunities for thinking about pictures in new ways. Superb color plates make this a book worth owning. It is pleasingly decked out with old photographs, eyewitness impressions of Degas and his studio, and four of Degas's sonnets. BOMC featured dividend selection.
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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition (October 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810911426
• ISBN-13: 978-0810911420
• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 10.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,575,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)