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

by Carol Armstrong

Book Overview

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; a storyteller in pictures who did not satisfy novelist-critics; a painter of modern life who was not a modernist; a member of the impressionist group who was no impressionist. Armstrong confronts these and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892367288
• ISBN13: 9780892367283
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"