Mapping Degas :: real spaces, symbolic spaces and invented spaces in the life and work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) /

The New Art History and the Impressionist canon seem to have successfully claimed Edgar Degas as a misogynist, rabid nationalist and misanthrope whose art was both masterly and experimental. By analysing Degas's approach to space and his self-fashioning attitude towards identity within the ambi...

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1. Verfasser: Crisci-Richardson, Roberta (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Zusammenfassung:The New Art History and the Impressionist canon seem to have successfully claimed Edgar Degas as a misogynist, rabid nationalist and misanthrope whose art was both masterly and experimental. By analysing Degas's approach to space and his self-fashioning attitude towards identity within the ambiguities of the political and artistic culture of nineteenth-century France, this book questions the characterisation of Degas as a right-wing Frenchman and artist, and will change the way in which Degas ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 382 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-371) and index.
ISBN:1443879339
9781443879330
1443874493
9781443874496