Degas & the dance
By: Lawrence W. Nichols, Marnie Hull, Michael Lang ; foreword by Brian P. Kennedy and Mari Davies
Contributors: Toledo Museum of Art
Publisher: Toledo Museum of Art
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toledo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9780935172553
Subjects: Exhibitions; Ballet in art; French Sculpture; French Painting; French Prints; Ballet dans l'art; Expositions; Sculpture française; Peinture française; Estampe française
Other titles: Degas and the dance
Description: Degas's "rendering [of] movement" in his images of ballet dancers in painting, pastel, print, and sculpture is the subject of the focus exhibition Degas and the Dance at the Toledo Museum of Art (October 15, 2015-January 10, 2016), which brings together important loans from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, the Museum of Fine Art, both in Washington, D.C., and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, along with works from the Toledo Museum of Art's own collection. Essays in this companion catalogue place Degas's images of the ballet in the context of the artist's overall philosophy of art and the social milieu of the Paris Opéra Ballet, and offer the perspective of a choreographer inspired to create a ballet based on Degas's work.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art, October 15, 2015-January 10, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (page 56).
Table of contents: title: Art movement(s) / Michael Lang; title: Seeing the unseen: Degas's preoccupation with dance / Lawrence W. Nichols; title: The Paris Opera Ballet / Marnie Hull.