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Dialogues with Degas - Influence and Antagonism in Contemporary Art
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Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar
Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first
in-depth examination of this major artist’s impact on
contemporary art, this book charts how contemporary practitioners
have used Degas’s creativity as a springboard to engage
imaginatively and critically with themes of colonialism, gender,
race and class. Individual chapters are devoted to different
dialogues between Degas’s painting, drawing, printmaking,
sculpture and art produced from the 1980s to the present. Through
close analyses of selected works, Kathryn Brown explores how
Degas’s technical experiments have been tested and extended in
innovative ways. The artists selected for this study have
explicitly taken up, developed or challenged Degas’s technical
and compositional experiments; they include Frank Auerbach, Cecily
Brown, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin,
R.B. Kitaj, Paula Rego, Yinka Shonibare and Cy Twombly. By
submitting existing compositions to new technical and imaginative
experiments, these artists generate visual palimpsests that make
new demands of the viewer and reveal the meanings that accrue to
artworks as they circulate within different spatial, temporal and
institutional networks. The book overturns familiar conceptions of
influence by showing how the art historical canon can be challenged
from a position within it and by making the case that a close
examination of dialogues with Degas generates a way of writing art
history that eschews genealogies. Prioritizing, instead, the
analysis of non-linear and conceptual encounters between images
generates a new conception of the agency of artworks and of the
dialogues they are capable of entertaining with other works. While
this study will shed new light on Degas’s art and that of his
interlocutors, it will also have methodological significance for
the writing of art history.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Kathryn Brown
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-25869-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-350-25869-5 |
Barcode: |
9781350258693 |
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