Degas and the Little Dancer (Anholt's Artists)

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Young Marie wants to be a ballerina, but her parents have no money for lessons. She must earn what little money she can as an artist's model at a ballet school. Then, her life takes an unusual turn when she models for the famous sculptor, Edgar Degas.This is a title in Barron's Anholt's Artists Books for Children series, in which author and illustrator Laurence Anholt recalls memorable and sometimes amusing moments when the lives of the artists were touched by children. Anholt's fine illustrations appear on every page and include reproductions of works by the artists.

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Edgar Degas (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

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Presents a biography of Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas

Born: July 19, 1834 in Paris, France
Died: September 27, 1917 in Paris, France.

Movement: Impressionism

Interesting Facts:

Degas enlisted in the National Guard at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
Over half of Degas’s paintings depict dancers.
Degas developed a strong passion for photography.
He criticized his fellow impressionists for painting, En plein air, “in the open air.”
Degas believed that “the artist must live alone, and his private life must remain unknown.” Subsequently, he never married and spent his final years wandering the streets of Paris alone.

Notable Works:
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, L’Absinthe, La Toilette, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.

Degas art book includes 170+ Reproductions of ballet dancers, horses and portrait subjects with title and date.

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Edgar Degas

Born: July 19, 1834 in Paris, France
Died: September 27, 1917 in Paris, France.

Movement: Impressionism

Interesting Facts:

Degas enlisted in the National Guard at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
Over half of Degas’s paintings depict dancers.
Degas developed a strong passion for photography.
He criticized his fellow impressionists for painting, En plein air, “in the open air.”
Degas believed that “the artist must live alone, and his private life must remain unknown.” Subsequently, he never married and spent his final years wandering the streets of Paris alone.

Notable Works:
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, L’Absinthe, La Toilette, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.

Degas art book includes 170+ Reproductions of ballet dancers, horses and portrait subjects with title and date.

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Degas and the Nude

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The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet frequently his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. 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. With essays by leading American and French critics, it provides a new interpretation of Degas' evolving conception of the nude, situating it in the subject's broader context among his peers in nineteenth-century France. It explores how Degas exploited all of the body's expressive possibilities, how his vision of the nude informed his notion of modernity, and how he abandoned the classical or historical form in favor of a figure seen in her own time and setting--whether engaged in overtly carnal acts or just stepping out of an ordinary bath. More than 200 lushly rendered full-color images present a re-seeing of Degas' subject in paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture. Among them are the most important of Degas' early paintings of nudes, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses repeated throughout his career; monotypes of the late 1870s, almost caricature-like in their imagery, illustrating Degas' most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels; and a number of pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they may reside. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of genius achievement and present a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.

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Degas' Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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Color Your Own Degas Paintings (Dover Art Coloring Book)

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