Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum of fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 9, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012 ; and Musée d'Orsay, Paris, March 12-July 1, 2012. Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-239).
Contents:
Lucian Freud talks about Degas / Martin Gayford -- Introduction / George T. M. Shackelford & Xavier Rey -- The classical body : Degas's beginnings / Anne Roquebert -- The body in peril : Scene of war in the Middle Ages / George T. M. Shackelford -- The body exploited : Degas's brothel works / Xavier Rey -- The body observed : Degas's naturalist nudes / Xavier Rey -- The body exhibited : Degas's nudes in the 1880s / George T. M. Shackelford -- The body transformed : Degas's last nudes / George T. M. Shackelford -- Epilogue / George T. M. Shackelford.
Summary:
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.
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