A Degas Sketchbook - Hardcover

Armstrong, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892366109 ISBN 13: 9780892366101

Verlag: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; vii, 111 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Summary; In 1995 the Getty Museum acquired a sketchbook by the prolific artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Its images, dating from approximately 1877, embrace a variety of themes from everyday Parisian life the cafe, concert, brothels, and ballet and were created during Degas's weekly visits to the home of writer Ludovic Halevy, the first owner of the sketchbook. They show Degas's remarkable powers of observation, as well as the sureness and economy of his line. Reproduced here are twenty-eight pages from the sketchbook, along with a brilliant essay that places Degas within the contexts of both the cultivated salon of the Halevy family and the larger world of late-nineteenth-century Paris, which the notoriously difficult artist both celebrated and shunned. In addition, the book features a transcript of a lively conversation about the sketchbook among artist David Hockney, Getty Museum director John Walsh, and Lee Hendrix, curator of drawings for the Getty Museum. Biography; Carol Armstrong is professor of art history at Princeton University and the author of Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas. Subjects; Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. J. Paul Getty Museum. Drawing - California - Los Angeles. Artists' preparatory studies. Drawing & drawings ; Individual artists ; History of art & design styles: (c 1800 to c 1900). Art / Techniques / Drawing. Art / Individual Artists / General. Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General. Art / European. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

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A reproduction of all the drawings in a sketchbook created around 1877 by Edgar Degas (1834-1917). The drawings are reproduced at almost full size. Carol Armstrong's accompanying essay discusses Degas' life and art in the context of the sketchbook. There is a postscript by David Hockney.

Biografía del autor:

Carol Armstrong is professor of art history at Princeton University and the author of Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas.

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• Verlag: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0892366109
• ISBN 13: 9780892366101
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120