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Memories of Degas (Lives of the Artists)

Memories of Degas (Lives of the Artists)

by George Moore (Author), George Moore (Author), Anna Gruetzner Robins (Editor), Walter Sickert (Author)

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Synopsis

Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore's pioneering essay, `The Painter of Modern Life'. When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas's great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert. Sickert's essay, sparkling, engaged, witty and occasionally combative, is amongst the best of his writings. Together these memoirs represent some of the most vivid responses to Impressionism in English - as well as painting an intimate picture of arguably the most important and most influential - and the most humane - of the painters of the later 19th century. Hitherto difficult to find, these essays are reprinted here with an introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins, and are illustrated with thirty pages of colour plates covering the span of Degas's dazzling career.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 112
 Edition: 2nd Enlarged edition
 Publisher: Pallas Athene Publishers
Published: 28 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 1843681749
ISBN 13: 9781843681748

Author Bio
George Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish writer of novels, poetry, plays and art criticism. His first ambition was to be a painter, and he spent much of the 1870's in Paris, where he came to know many of the leading figures in art and literature. Walter Sickert (1860-1942), of mixed Danish, German and English blood, became one of the most powerful followers of Degas in England, and an important link between Impressionism and Modernism. He also wrote much important art criticism. Anna Gruetzner Robins is Professor of History of Art at the University of Reading. She was co-curator of `Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910', 2005 and editor of `Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art', 2000.