Degas Et Le Nu

Première grande exposition monographique consacrée à Edgar Degas (1834-1917) à Paris depuis la rétrospective de 1988 au Grand Palais, Degas et le nu participe de l'ambition du musée d'Orsay de donner à voir l'avancée des connaissances sur les grands maîtres de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, après les hommages à Claude Monet (1840-1926) et Edouard Manet (1832-1883).Cette exposition explore l'évolution de Degas dans la pratique du nu, de l'approche académique et historique de ses débuts à l'inscription du corps dans la modernité au cours de sa longue carrière. Occupant avec les danseuses et les chevaux une place prédominante dans l‘oeuvre de l'artiste, les nus sont présentés à travers toutes les techniques pratiquées par Degas, la peinture, la sculpture, le dessin, l'estampe et surtout le pastel qu'il porte à son plus haut degré d'achèvement. Organisée avec le Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, l'exposition bénéficie du très riche fonds d‘oeuvres graphiques du musée d'Orsay, rarement montré pour des raisons de conservation, auxquels s'adjoignent des prêts exceptionnels des plus grandes collections, comme celles du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York ou de l'Art Institute de Chicago.

Peintre, graveur et sculpteur, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) occupe une place originale dans l'art de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, par l'acuité de sa vision et la force suggestive de son œuvre. Ami de Manet et des impressionnistes, il renouvelle les thèmes de la vie moderne, champs de course, cafés-concerts, théâtres, sous l'influence de l'art japonais et de l'instantané photographique. Son goût pour le mouvement, les effets obliques, de plongée ou de raccourci, triomphe dans ses nombreuses Danseuses et ses Nus qu'il aborde avec un don saisissant du dessin et une grande variété de moyens d'expression : huile, pastel, fusain, lithographie, monotype.

The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet 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 critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth examination of this major artist's impact on contemporary art, this book explores how contemporary practitioners have used Degas's creativity as a springboard to engage imaginatively and critically with themes of colonialism, gender, race and class. Individual chapters are devoted to dialogues between Degas's art and works produced by Frank Auerbach, Cecily Brown, Xinyi Cheng, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Chantal Joffe, Leon Kossoff, R.B. Kitaj, Juan Muñoz, Paula Rego, Jenny Saville, Yinka Shonibare, Cy Twombly and Rebecca Warren. Through close analyses of selected paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, Kathryn Brown explores how Degas's technical and compositional experiments have been extended or challenged in innovative ways. By experimenting with the materials and methods of existing works, contemporary artists generate visual palimpsests that make new demands of the viewer and prompt a reconsideration of ideas that have informed histories of 19th-century French art. The book overturns familiar conceptions of influence by eschewing a genealogical approach and prioritizing, instead, the analysis of non-linear encounters between artworks. This encourages a new conception of the agency of visual artefacts and of the conversations they are capable of entertaining with each other. While this study sheds new light on Degas's art and that of his interlocutors, it also has methodological significance for the writing of art history.

Première grande exposition monographique consacrée à Edgar Degas (1834-1917) à Paris depuis la rétrospective de 1988 au Grand Palais, Degas et le nu participe de l'ambition du musée d'Orsay de donner à voir l'avancée des connaissances sur les grands maîtres de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, après les hommages à Claude Monet (1840-1926) et Edouard Manet (1832-1883).Cette exposition explore l'évolution de Degas dans la pratique du nu, de l'approche académique et historique de ses débuts à l'inscription du corps dans la modernité au cours de sa longue carrière. Occupant avec les danseuses et les chevaux une place prédominante dans l‘oeuvre de l'artiste, les nus sont présentés à travers toutes les techniques pratiquées par Degas, la peinture, la sculpture, le dessin, l'estampe et surtout le pastel qu'il porte à son plus haut degré d'achèvement. Organisée avec le Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, l'exposition bénéficie du très riche fonds d‘oeuvres graphiques du musée d'Orsay, rarement montré pour des raisons de conservation, auxquels s'adjoignent des prêts exceptionnels des plus grandes collections, comme celles du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York ou de l'Art Institute de Chicago.

How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent – often daily – bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries.

In Odd Man Out, 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 analyzing 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. This is a reprint of the book first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1991.

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