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  Degas and the Nude (Hardback) By (author) George T. M. Shackelford, By (author) Xavier Rey, Contributions by Lucian Freud, Contributions by Martin Gayford, Contributions by Anne Roquebert

  

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  Short Description for Degas and the NudeThe nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. This book explores the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s.
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  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Published: 26 September 2011
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages
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  • Categories: Styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism | Art History: c 1900 - | Paintings | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Human Figures Depicted In Art | Nudes Depicted In Art
  • ISBN 13: 9780500093627 ISBN 10: 0500093628
  • Sales rank: 209,586

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• The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. "Degas and the Nude" is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas' evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas' early paintings, "Scene of War in the Middle Ages", which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas' most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.