Degas and the Dance

by Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall

Book Overview

Among the supreme masterpieces of 19th-century art are Edgar Degas' dramatic, incisive and often brilliantly coloured pictures of the ballet. He has enormous popularity as the foremost artist of the dance - with more than half his vast body of paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures devoted to the on- and off-stage activities of ballerinas - and this catalogue, accompanying an exhibition, illuminates the theme in its historical context.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810932822
• ISBN13: 9780810932821
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.0" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Much better than Cem Altinel's review suggests

The copy I saw didn't show evidence of poor color separations, nothing that I could detect at any rate...I especially appreciated the degree of attention paid to Degas' drawings...some publishers seem to think that finished paintings are the only things worth reproducing in color. Next paycheck, I'm buying this one! I also thought that the reviewer's crack about a typically rough American approach was uncalled for (and I'm not an American). Ever hear, for example, of Yale University Press?