Expose / Expose yourself Edgar Degas and James McNeill Whistler mediators of their art

Expose / Expose yourself Edgar Degas and James McNeill Whistler mediators of their art

MX015686
FRENCH LANGUAGE

Degas and Whistler, key figures on the artistic forefront of Paris and London in the second half of the 19th century, shared an early awareness of the importance of creating new exhibition modalities to raise awareness among their contemporaries of a singular, resolutely on the sidelines...
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Characteristics

Dimensions
24 x 16 cm
Artists
Edgar Degas (1834-1917), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Museum
Musée d'Orsay
Art movement
19th century
Reference
MX015686
EAN
9782362220845
Size of the book
Paperback with flap

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Famous for his dancers, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is often considered one of the masters of Impressionism, despite defining himself as a realist and an independent. Fascinated by the study of movement, he attached himself to all the motives that represented life: dance, of course, but also horse races. Like his friend Manet, Degas was one of the great painters of modern life, coffee scenes, brothels, milliners, laundresses ... The work of this Parisian and bourgeois artist, very cultured and collector, is marked by his knowledge of the great masters.