Looking Into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life

By Eunice Lipton

Book Overview

This book is about the realist paintings. They are the ones that evoke modern Paris--the streets and cafes, the singers and ballet dancers, the laundresses and millineers. These are the paintings that are both nostalgic and modern. They long for a privileged past in the same instant that they reject its values; they lurch merrily, sometimes nastily, into modern Paris at the very moment that they longingly nod in the direction of tradition..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520063406
• ISBN13: 9780520063402
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 8 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"