Picasso looks at Degas
By: Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall.
Contributors: Kendall, Richard.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.; Museo Picasso.
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Clark Art Inst
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780931102851; 9780931102868; 9780300134124
Subjects: Picasso, Pablo, -- 1881-1973 -- Exhibitions; Degas, Edgar, -- 1834-1917 -- Influence -- Exhibitions; Degas, Edgar, -- 1834-1917 -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: This volume presents documented instances of Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) direct responses to French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas's (1834-1917) works, as well as more conceptual and challenging affinities between their individual bodies of work. Illustrated essays explore the artists' parallel interests in modern urban life, ballet dancers, activities such as bathing and combing the hair, photography, and the challenges of sculpture. The book also provides the first extended analysis of Picasso's engagement with Degas's art in his final years, when he acquired several of the French artist's brothel monotypes and reworked some of them in his own prints.
Notes: "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Picasso Looks at Degas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 13 June-12 September 2010, The Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 14 October 2010-16 January 2011."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Academies and "mad revolutionaries" / Richard Kendall; title: Neighbors in Montmartre / Richard Kendall; title: The ballet: "work, pleasure and vice" / Richard Kendall; title: The rebirth of Venus: women at their toilette / Elizabeth Cowling; title: "The best things he ever did": Picasso and Degas's maisons closes / Elizabeth Cowling; title: "To play with light and shadow": Degas and Picasso as photographers / Sarah Lees; title: Appendix I: Olga Khokhlova, ballerina, and Pablo Picasso / Cécile Godefroy; title: Appendix II: reactions to the work of Degas in Picasso's circle (1881-1900) / Montse Torras.