Kathryn Brown is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University, UK. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Henri Matisse (2021). She is the series editor of Contextualizing Art Markets (Bloomsbury).

Thoughtfully positioning the work of Edgar Degas in dialogue with that of certain contemporary artists, Brown compellingly reveals not just his ongoing relevance, but also the rich possibilities presented by an art history that is global, diverse, non-linear and inclusive.

• AcknowledgementsList of Colour Plates List of FiguresIntroductionInfluence and AntagonismArt out of TimeStructure and Approach1. Degas and the School of LondonR. B. Kitaj and the Anxious Condition of Art MakingThe Anti-Dreyfusard MasterLeon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach Draw Degas2. Influence as ExcessMisogynyPaula Rego’s Dog WomenCecily Brown: New Provocations3. Vitrines, Vacancy, and Immanent Things: Little Fourteen-Year-Old DancerMedicine and Moral Judgment: Damien HirstEntangled Histories: Yinka ShonibareRyan Gander’s Empathetic Storytelling4. Degas DoubledRebecca Warren as TwinJuan Muñoz and Miss La La’s Legacy5. Pearl Divers: Prying Loose the PastMaggi Hambling’s Monotypes: Queer Phenomenology and the GazeChantal Joffe’s Bathers: Self and OtherXinyi Cheng: Modern Masculinities6. The Final ActJenny Saville: Colour ShockHoward Hodgkin’s HeroConclusion Cy Twombly and Degas’s Hat Degas UnboundNotes Bibliography Index

Kathryn Brown is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University, UK. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Henri Matisse (2021). She is the series editor of Contextualizing Art Markets (Bloomsbury).

Thoughtfully positioning the work of Edgar Degas in dialogue with that of certain contemporary artists, Brown compellingly reveals not just his ongoing relevance, but also the rich possibilities presented by an art history that is global, diverse, non-linear and inclusive.

• AcknowledgementsList of Colour Plates List of FiguresIntroductionInfluence and AntagonismArt out of TimeStructure and Approach1. Degas and the School of LondonR. B. Kitaj and the Anxious Condition of Art MakingThe Anti-Dreyfusard MasterLeon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach Draw Degas2. Influence as ExcessMisogynyPaula Rego’s Dog WomenCecily Brown: New Provocations3. Vitrines, Vacancy, and Immanent Things: Little Fourteen-Year-Old DancerMedicine and Moral Judgment: Damien HirstEntangled Histories: Yinka ShonibareRyan Gander’s Empathetic Storytelling4. Degas DoubledRebecca Warren as TwinJuan Muñoz and Miss La La’s Legacy5. Pearl Divers: Prying Loose the PastMaggi Hambling’s Monotypes: Queer Phenomenology and the GazeChantal Joffe’s Bathers: Self and OtherXinyi Cheng: Modern Masculinities6. The Final ActJenny Saville: Colour ShockHoward Hodgkin’s HeroConclusion Cy Twombly and Degas’s Hat Degas UnboundNotes Bibliography Index