PUBLISHER: The Phillips Collection - distributed by the Yale University Press DATE/EDITION: 2011 BINDING: Hardbound in white cloth with black lettering on the spine, 8" x 10 1/2", 139 pages DUST JACKET: The jacket is very good plus, clean and no rips BOOK CONDITION: The book is also very good plus with tight binding and very clean covers and interior. DESCRIPTION: Illustrated throughout.

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Title

Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint

Publisher

Phillips Collections, USA

Publication Date

2011

Language

English

ISBN 10

0300176325

ISBN 13

9780300176322

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Art, Photography, Fashion, Design

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Synopsis

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a passionate devotee of ballet—he knew the dancers, the music, the choreography. He also knew the work involved in the life of the dancer, the endless rote and repetition of steps to achieve supreme grace, agility, and expression. Degas's Dancers at the Barre traces ballet in Degas's art from the 1870s to 1900. Bringing together carefully chosen paintings, drawings, pastels, prints, and sculptures from some of the world's finest collections, this book celebrates The Phillips Collection's Dancers at the Barre (early 1880s–c. 1900) as a crowning achievement in the artist's prodigious career.

Phillips Chief Curator Eliza Rathbone details Degas's intricate process behind his late masterpiece and Head of Conservation Elizabeth Steele presents fascinating discoveries from the painting's recent conservation. National Gallery of Art object conservators Shelley Sturman and Daphne Barbour discuss Degas's sculptures, and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon reflects on Degas in the context of ballet today. Full-color reproductions of the works in the exhibition—accompanied by images of related works, notes from the technical analysis of additional works by Degas in the Phillips Collection, and a detailed chronology of the artist's life—reveal the impressionist master's complex exploration of the figure and devotion to dance.

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Eliza Rathbone is chief curator, The Phillips Collection. Elizabeth Steele is head of conservation, The Phillips Collection.

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