This is the first complete and authoritative biography of Edgar Degas yet to appear. Arguably the greatest of the Impressionists , Degas was also a powerful, complex, and contradictory personality. This book is full of time and place--the Montmartre cafes where the artists and intellectuals argued, the great Salon art shows, the ballet, and the places where Degas traveled. It is peopled with the rebel experimenters who gave the world the most dazzling new vision since the Renaissance.
This is the first complete and authoritative biography of Edgar Degas yet to appear. Arguably the greatest of the Impressionists , Degas was also a powerful, complex, and contradictory personality. This book is full of time and place--the Montmartre cafes where the artists and intellectuals argued, the great Salon art shows, the ballet, and the places where Degas traveled. It is peopled with the rebel experimenters who gave the world the most dazzling new vision since the Renaissance.