num_pages: 294
description: Edgar Degas traveled from Paris to New Orleans during the fall of 1872 to visit the American branch of his mother's family, the Mussons. This war-torn, diverse, and conflicted city elicited from Degas some of his finest paintings. He arrived at a key moment in the cultural history of this most exotic of American cities, still recovering from the agony of the Civil War. This decisive period of Reconstruction, in which his American relatives were importantly involved, was also the time when the American writers Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable were beginning to mine the resources of New Orleans culture and history.
language: English
title: Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable
titlecomplete: Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable
genres: Nonfiction, History, Art
ratings_count: 70
publisher: University of California Press