Manet / Degas

March 28, 2023 July 23, 2023 Exhibition has ended

A comparison of artists as crucial as Manet and Degas should not be limited to identifying the similarities in their respective bodies of work. Admittedly, there is no lack of analogies among these key players in the new painting of the 1860s-80s when it comes to the subjects they imposed (from horse races to café scenes, from prostitution to the tub), the genres they reinvented, the realism they opened to other formal and narrative potentialities, the market and the collectors they managed to tame ...
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Expose / Expose yourself Edgar Degas and James McNeill Whistler mediators of their art

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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 of that presented by the Institutions: posters announcing their exhibitions with the titles they give them, catalogs they design with their original wall biases or the remarkable attention they pay to their frames, their innovations are landmarks in the history of contemporary art and participate in the construction of their artistic identity, beyond borders.

French language
403 pages

Éditions Mare & Martin

Manet / Degas

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

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