Degas
Subtitle: dance, politics and society
By: edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Fernando Oliva ; texts by Adriano Pedrosa [and ten others]
Contributors: Borges, Sofia, 1984- photographer; Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Publisher: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; DelMonico Books/D.A.P.
Published: 2021
Place of publication: São Paulo, Brazil; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781636810041
Subjects: Exhibitions; Themes, motives; Ballet dancers in art; Ballet dancers; Social conditions; Art and society; History; Photography of sculpture
Other titles: Dance, politics and society
Description: This substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is a decisive contribution to the literature on the French Impressionist artist. An innovative and groundbreaking book, with underlying discussions related to "dance, politics and society," it pays special attention to issues of gender, identity, labor, race and the representation of women. Degas worked in various mediums, and, at the end of his life, left around 6,000 works, including 2,000 related to the world of dance and ballet. The contradictions and ambiguities of his art, especially the way he straddles both tradition and modernity, reaffirm both his uniqueness and significance in the history of Western art. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society includes ten essays, never before published, by experts around the world, and also features a visual essay of black-and-white photographs of the bronze sculptures, including Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by the Brazilian artist Sofia Borges. Through her camera, Borges reinterprets and conceives new images of Degas' most cherished and classic sculptures. Borges' extraordinary photographs reveal, transform and revisit Degas' works in an innovative and radical manner. Exhibition: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (12.04.2020-08.01.2021).
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil, December 4, 2020-August 1, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (page 335).
Table of contents: title: Degas and Borges at MASP / Adriano Pedrosa and Heitor Martins; title: Degas : dance, politics and society / Adriano Pedrosa and Fernando Oliva; title: Essay on a sculpture / Sofia Borges; title: Degas's alleged misogyny : the resilience of a cultural myth / Norma Broude; title: Degas and gender relations at the Opéra de Paris / Leïla Jarbouai; title: "Little dancer aged fourteen" : from mannequin to bibelot / Ana Magalhães; title: "Elles me détestent" : Degas and women, Blacks, and Jews / Fernando Oliva; title: Degas's images of working women : modernity in motion / Susan Tenneriello; title: Degas : digging the dirt / Anthea Callen; title: Looping and weaving time / Leslie Dick; title: Through the painter's lens : photography and Degas's dancers / Raisa Rexer; title: From one Degas to the other : Mademoiselle Malot, dancer at the Opéra / Isolde Pludermacher.