Degas and the nude /
Shackelford, George T. M.,1955-
Rey, Xavier.
Freud, Lucian.
Gayford, Martin,1952-
Roquebert, Anne.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Musée d'Orsay.
London : Thames & Hudson,
2011.
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. This book explores the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years, the portraying of sexual depictions in Parisian brothels, in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, the portraying of the daily life of women wherever they resided.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-239).
Lucian Freud talks about Degas / Martin Gayford -- Introduction / George T. M. Shackelford & 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 brothel works / 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.
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. This book explores the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years, the portraying of sexual depictions in Parisian brothels, in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, the portraying of the daily life of women wherever they resided.
Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum of fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 9, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012 ; and Musée d'Orsay, Paris March 12-July 1, 2012.
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917
Nude in art