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The Dancer: Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec | 
 enlarge | Authors: Annette Dixon, Mary Weaver Chapin, Jill Devonyar, Richard Kendall, Florence Valdes-forain
Publisher: Portland Art Museum
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 483411
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 254
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 10 x 0.6
ISBN: 1883124271
Dewey Decimal Number: 704.94979280944
EAN: 9781883124274
ASIN: 1883124271
Publication Date: August 30, 2008
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Artists in late nineteenth-century France produced some of Europe's most celebrated and revolutionary works of art. Among those innovators are Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who captured the renowned dancers of Paris in paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculptures, creating potent icons of a unique time, place, and culture. Each sought to portray rapidly changing urban life, concentrating on the human figure in its social context. The dancer proved to be a fruitful subject for their investigations of modernity.Degas focused on the artifice of the performance and the harsh daily life of the dancer. Drawing on his background as a newspaper illustrator, Forain's vignettes focus on backstage flirtations between social unequals, especially their exploitative aspects. By contrast, Lautrec's paintings, prints, and posters of celebrity dancers reveal his uncritical acceptance of the sexual commerce that was part of the popular entertainment scene of Montmatre. Annette Dixon is curator of prints and drawings at the Portland Art Museum, Other contributors include Richard Kendall, Florence Valdès-Forain, Mary Weaver Chapin, Jill DeVonyar, Marnie P. Stark, and Ingrid Berger.256 pp., 269 color illus., bibliog., 10 x 12. 5 in.
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Enhanced with 269 full color illustrations and extended bibliography August 11, 2008
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From the ballet to the Can-Can, French dance studios, dance stages, and dancers have long been favored subjects for French artists in general, including such luminaries of brush and canvas as Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec. In "The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec", this specific theme as represented in 19th century avant-garde French art are explored by Annette Dixon, with the invaluable assistance and contributions of Mary Weaver Chapin, Jill Devonyar, Richard Kendall, and Florence Valdes-Forain. Enhanced with 269 full color illustrations and extended bibliography, "The Dancer" is a 256 page compendium of informed and informative commentary that will prove of immense interest to students of the works of these three great artists, as well as the subject they chose to interpret through art and sculpture. Simply stated, no academic, art department, or community library art history reference collection should be considered complete without the inclusion of "The Dancer".
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