Edgar Degas

Name: Edgar Degas
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Drawings and Pastels

By Christopher Lloyd

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Summary

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a preeminent draughtsman of the 19th century, for whom drawing was fundamental both artistically and personally. Christopher Lloyd explores the evolution of Degas's unique style by examining his extensive collection of drawings and pastels. The book follows a broadly chronological narrative that reveals Degas's life and his complex ties with the Impressionists. Not limited to his famous dancer studies, it also highlights his work with nudes, milliners, racehorses, and landscapes. Covering his entire career from student copies of Old Masters to his final works halted by failing eyesight in 1912, Lloyd situates Degas firmly in his artistic era. The volume features around 250 exquisite sketches and pastels, offering a comprehensive and visually rich insight into Degas's artistic legacy.
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This richly illustrated and thoroughly researched book will appeal to art enthusiasts, students of art history, and admirers of Degas and Impressionism. It is suited for readers who appreciate in-depth studies of artists' techniques and life stories.

A beautifully produced literary art book that restores a collection of drawings and pastels to the heart of the life story one of the great artists of the 19th century – now in paperback.

A beautifully produced literary art book that restores a collection of drawings and pastels to the heart of the life story of one of the great artists of the 19th century

Description

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was one of the outstanding draughtsmen of the 19th century: drawing was not only a central tenet of his art but essential to his existence. Through an examination of the artist's drawings and pastels, Christopher Lloyd reveals the development of Degas's style as well as the story of his life, including his complicated relationship with the Impressionists.

Following a broadly chronological approach, the author discusses the various subject areas, not only the images of dancers (which form over half of Degas's total oeuvre) but also of nudes and milliners, and the less well-known racehorse and landscape drawings. He covers his whole career, from when Degas was copying the Old Masters to learn his craft to when he ceased work in 1912 because of failing eyesight, setting him within the artistic context of the period.

Lloyd's extensive research, which includes consulting the artist's detailed notebooks, has resulted in a comprehensive exposition with, at its heart, some 250 pencil, black-chalk, pen-and-ink, and charcoal drawings and pastels of timeless appeal.

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'Christopher Lloyd’s book delights and is terrific value' - Mature Times

'An historic as well as critical study … comprehensively and excellently illustrated' - The Artist

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500293416

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 August 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 26 Illustrations, black and white; 212 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 780g

Pages: 320

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Arts & Culture Christopher Lloyd Non-Fiction

About the Author

Christopher Lloyd worked in the Department of Western Art of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1968 to 1988, combining curatorial duties with teaching. During that time he was appointed by Harvard University to a Fellowship at Villa I Tatti in Florence and was Visiting Research Curator of Early Italian Painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was appointed Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures in the British Royal Collection in 1988 and retired from that post in 2005. He is now engaged in writing and organizing exhibitions on a wide variety of subjects. His publications include monographs on painters, catalogues of museum collections and surveys of the Royal Collection, as well as In Search of a Masterpiece: An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland, Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels and Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolours.