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This book is about the realist paintings. They are the ones that evoke modern Paris--the streets and cafes, the singers and ballet dancers, the laundresses and millineers. These are the paintings that are both nostalgic and modern. They long for a privileged past in the same instant that they reject its values; they lurch merrily, sometimes nastily, into modern Paris at the very moment that they longingly nod in the direction of tradition..
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Booklist Review
760'.092 Degas, Edgar Criticism and interpretation / Social problems in art [CIP] 85-31993 Sutton, Denys. Edgar Degas: life and work. 1986. 343p. illus. (part col.) Rizzoli, $69.95 (0-8478-0733-9) ~ 709'.2 (B) Degas, Edgar / Artists France Biography [CIP] 86-42702 Two new studies on French painter Degas are complementary in their differing approaches to the artist's life and work. Concentrating on Degas' realist period from 1865 to 1890, Lipton investigates the social and political realities that were captured on Degas' canvases. She divides the works by subject and genre race horses, ballet, laundresses, bathers and shows how Degas reflected the issues of his world in his work by illustrating the social developments and confrontations that were taking place in the period. The emerging role of working women in particular is capably addressed in Degas' images and in Lipton's commentary. Well illustrated with black-and-white reproductions in the text and a section of colorplates. Notes, bibliography; index. Sutton's volume is a larger and more comprehensive study, both in its oversize art-book format and in its more extensive consideration of Degas' entire life and career. In a chronological treatment, Sutton traces Degas' artistic development, with particularly strong coverage of the stylistic changes and technical experiments that the painter employed throughout his life. Biographical details are also gracefully integrated into the account. And, of course, the numerous illustrations, reproduced in color and in black and white, attest to Degas' mastery of his art form. Chronology, notes, and bibliography; index. JB.
Choice Review
The discipline of art history has recently undergone a shift in methodology that now encourages sociocultural explanations of works of art. In the modern era, there are no artists for whom this approach is longer overdue than Manet and Degas-these artists' works are rarely satisfactorily explained in visual terms alone. In her new book, Lipton attempts to reconstruct a political, social, and personal context for the ``realist'' oeuvre (186590) of Degas. Although her text demands a critical and cautious reading, it also adds to our understanding of Degas and his times. The book is not restricted to discussions of Degas, his images of women, or a militantly feminist interpretation of the artist and his works. Instead, Lipton attempts to recreate the fabric of meaning-intentional or implicit-that Degas's images carried in their own time and that are frequently lost to us today. Some of Lipton's assertions seem implausible; yet all are provocative and lively theories of interest to the 19th-century historian and art historian alike. Not a book for the beginner or the browser, it should be in every academic library for reasons of its uniqueness, credibility, and timeliness.-D.J. Johnson, Rhode Island School of Design