Degas and the laundress : women, work, and impressionism / Britany Salsbury ; with contributions by Aleksandra Bursac, Michelle Foa, Gretchen Schultz, Charles Sowerwine, Richard Thomson, and Claire White.
Publisher:
The Cleveland Museum of Art,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the Degas and the laundress: women, work, and impressionism, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 8, 2023, to January 14, 2024"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Writings from Degas's time about his laundress works / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse. Degas on French textiles, the transatlantic cotton trade, and the word of ironing / Michelle Foa -- The skillful, the social, and the scurrilous: the imagery of the laundress in naturalist painting / Richard Thomson -- Putting people in their place: class and gender in Degas's Paris / Charles Sowerwine -- Working-class women, alcohol, and Degas's Women Ironing / Gretchen Schultz -- Idyll to industry: infrastructures of cleanliness in nineteenth-century France / Aleksandra Bursac -- The stench of the people: on the mania for Émile Zola's L'Assommoir / Claire White -- Appendixes -- Britany Salsbury -- Appendixes -- Catalogue raisonné of Degas's laundress works / Britany Salsbury -- Chronology: Degas's life and the Parisian laundry industry, 1785-1919 / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse -- Writings from Degas's time about his laundress works / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse.
Summary:
"An exploration of Edgar Degas's laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women's work in the nineteenth century."--Source other than Library of Congress.
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