The Dancer: Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec

by Annette Dixon, Mary Weaver Chapin, Jill DeVonyar

Artists in late 19th-century France produced some of Europe's most celebrated and revolutionary works of art. Among those innovators are Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who captured the renowned dancers of Paris in paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculptures, creating potent icons of a unique time, place, and culture. Each sought to portray rapidly changing urban life, concentrating on the human figure in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883124271
• ISBN13: 9781883124274
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.2" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Great catalogue!

I did not see the exhibition it accompanied, unfortunately, but this catalogue is very well done. The articles are interesting and well-written, the works well-chosen. The reader gets a good feel for the world of the opera and the nightlife of the time. There is also a timeline at the end, marking the most notable political and cultural events of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, starting with the birth of 'Degas in 1834 and ending with the death of Forain in 1931.

Enhanced with 269 full color illustrations and extended bibliography

From the ballet to the Can-Can, French dance studios, dance stages, and dancers have long been favored subjects for French artists in general, including such luminaries of brush and canvas as Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec. In "The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec", this specific theme as represented in 19th century avant-garde French art are explored by Annette Dixon, with the invaluable assistance and contributions of Mary Weaver Chapin, Jill Devonyar, Richard Kendall, and Florence Valdes-Forain. Enhanced with 269 full color illustrations and extended bibliography, "The Dancer" is a 256 page compendium of informed and informative commentary that will prove of immense interest to students of the works of these three great artists, as well as the subject they chose to interpret through art and sculpture. Simply stated, no academic, art department, or community library art history reference collection should be considered complete without the inclusion of "The Dancer".