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Odd Man Out Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas

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ISBN-10: 0226026957

ISBN-13: 9780226026954

Edition: 1991

Authors: Carol M. Armstrong

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In Odd Man Out, Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as odd man out within the modernist canon: he was a realist whom realists rejected; he was a storyteller in pictures who did not satisfy novelist-critics; he painted modern life yet was no modernist; he belonged to the impressionist group yet was no impressionist. She confronts these and other contradictions by analyzing the critical vocabularies used to describe Degas's work. By reading several groups of the artist's images through the lens of a sequence of critical texts, Armstrong shows how our critical and popular expectations of…    
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Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/10/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 310
Size: 0.75" wide x 1.04" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Jennifer A. Gonz�lez is Associate Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, Art Journal, Bomb, numerous exhibition catalogs, and anthologies, including With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture and Race in Cyberspace.Carol Armstrong is a professional quilter, teacher, and pattern designer known for her beautiful, life-like applique designs taken from nature. Carol lives in Shingleton, Michigan.

Illustrations
Introduction
Degas, the Odd Man Out: The Impressionistic Exhibitions
Duranty on Degas: A Theory of Modern Painting
Reading the Work of Degas
Against the Grain: J.K. Huysmans and the 1886 Series of Nudes
The Myth of Degas
Postscript
Notes
Illustration Sources
Index