Degas and the Business of Art: "A Cotton Office in New Orleans"

by Edgar Degas and Marilyn R. Brown

Edgar Degas's painting entitled A Cotton Office in New Orleans is one of the most significant images of nineteenth-century capitalism, in part because it was the first painting by an Impressionist to be purchased by a museum. Drawing upon archival materials, Marilyn R. Brown explores the accumulated social meanings of the work in light of shifting audiences and changing market conditions and assesses the artist's complicated relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271009446
• ISBN13: 9780271009445
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 8.8" x 12.8"