Description
| Product ID: | 9781843681748 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Series: | Lives of the Artists |
| Title: | Memories of Degas |
| Authors: | Author: George Moore, Anna Gruetzner Robins, Walter Sickert |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Paintings and painting, Nudes depicted in art, Biography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Painting & paintings, Nudes depicted in art, Biography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Intensely personal memoirs of Degas, by George Moore, the first writer in English on Impressionism, and Walter Sickert. First time reprinted. Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore''s pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life. When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas''s great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert. Sickert''s essay, sparkling, engaged, witty and occasionally combative, is amongst the best of his writings. Together these memoirs represent some of the most vivid responses to Impressionism in English - as well as painting an intimate picture of arguably the most important and most influential - and the most humane - of the painters of the later 19th century. Hitherto difficult to find, these essays are reprinted here with an introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins and are illustrated with 30 pages of colour plates covering the span of Degas''s dazzling career. |
| Imprint Name: | Pallas Athene Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Pallas Athene Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-06-01 |
