Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as "odd man out" within the modernist canon: he was a realist whom realists rejected; a storyteller in pictures who did not satisfy novelist-critics; a painter of modern life who was not a modernist; a member of the impressionist group who was no impressionist. Armstrong confronts these and other paradoxes by analysing the critical vocabularies used to describe Degas's work. By reading several groups of the artist's images through the lens of a sequence of critical texts, Armstrong shows how our critical and popular expectations of Degas are overturned and subverted.
- ISBN10 0892367288
- ISBN13 9780892367283
- Publish Date 18 December 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 May 2024
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Getty Trust Publications
- Imprint Getty Research Institute,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 312
- Language English