Memories of Degas

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore's pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life. When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas's great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert. Sickert's essay, sparkling, engaged, witty and occasionally combative, is amongst the best of his writings. Together these memoirs represent some of the most vivid responses to Impressionism in English - as well as painting an intimate picture of arguably the most important and most influential - and the most humane - of the painters of the later 19th century. Hitherto difficult to find, these essays are reprinted here with an introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins and are illustrated with 30 pages of colour plates covering the span of Degas's dazzling career.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-01
Mått:114 x 145 x 4 mm
Vikt:126 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lives of the Artists
Antal sidor:112
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Pallas Athene Publishers
ISBN:9781843681748

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Sanna berättelser inom Biografier
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Biografi: konst och underhållning inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

George Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish writer of novels,poetry, plays and art criticism. His first ambition was to bea painter, and he spent much of the 1870's in Paris, wherehe came to know many of the leading figures in art andliterature.Walter Sickert (1860-1942), of mixed Danish, German andEnglish blood, became one of the most powerful followersof Degas in England, and an important link betweenImpressionism and Modernism. He also wrote muchimportant art criticism.Anna Gruetzner Robins is Professor of History of Art at theUniversity of Reading. She was co-curator of `Degas, Sickertand Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910', 2005and editor of `Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings onArt', 2000.

Recensioner i media

"The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication." - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews