Degas and the Dance: The Painter and the Petits Rats, Perfecting Their Art

by Susan Goldman Rubin

The young ballet students of Paris were called petits rats at the time of Degas. He realized that ballet is much like art, it needs lots of hard work and practice. More than 30 Degas paintings and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810905671
• ISBN13: 9780810905672
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.3" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Much better than Cem Altinel's review suggests

The copy I saw didn't show evidence of poor color separations, nothing that I could detect at any rate...I especially appreciated the degree of attention paid to Degas' drawings...some publishers seem to think that finished paintings are the only things worth reproducing in color. Next paycheck, I'm buying this one! I also thought that the reviewer's crack about a typically rough American approach was uncalled for (and I'm not an American). Ever hear, for example, of Yale University Press?