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Manet/Degas / Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley Dunn.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Yale University Press ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.Description: 316 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781588397638
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Contents:
Introduction / Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley E. Dunn
Manet and Degas meet: encounters in etching / Ashley E. Dunn
Political sensibilities: Manet and Degas on both sides of the Atlantic / Isolde Pludermacher
Manet, Degas, and the demimonde of Alexandre Dumas fils / Denise Murrell
Presence of absence: Degas, Manet, Valéry / Stéphane Guégan
Degas, after Manet / Stephan Wolohojian
Plates
Chronology / Samuel Rodary with Haley S. Pierce
Summary: The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art. Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their careers in parallel, investigates how their objectives overlapped, diverged, and shaped each other’s artistic choices. Enlivened by archival correspondence and records of firsthand accounts, essays by American and French scholars take a fresh look at the artists’ family relationships, literary friendships, and interconnected social and intellectual circles in Paris; explore their complex depictions of race and class; discuss their political views in the context of wars in France and the United States; compare their artistic practices; and examine how Degas built his personal collection of works by Manet after his friend’s premature death. An illustrated biographical chronology charts their intersecting lives and careers. This lavishly illustrated, in-depth study offers an opportunity to reevaluate some of the most canonical French artworks of the nineteenth century, including Manet’s Olympia, Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker, and other masterworks.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 27 March - 23 July 2023; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 24 September 2023 - 7 January 2024.

Introduction / Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley E. Dunn

Manet and Degas meet: encounters in etching / Ashley E. Dunn

Political sensibilities: Manet and Degas on both sides of the Atlantic / Isolde Pludermacher

Manet, Degas, and the demimonde of Alexandre Dumas fils / Denise Murrell

Presence of absence: Degas, Manet, Valéry / Stéphane Guégan

Degas, after Manet / Stephan Wolohojian

Plates

Chronology / Samuel Rodary with Haley S. Pierce

The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art. Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their careers in parallel, investigates how their objectives overlapped, diverged, and shaped each other’s artistic choices. Enlivened by archival correspondence and records of firsthand accounts, essays by American and French scholars take a fresh look at the artists’ family relationships, literary friendships, and interconnected social and intellectual circles in Paris; explore their complex depictions of race and class; discuss their political views in the context of wars in France and the United States; compare their artistic practices; and examine how Degas built his personal collection of works by Manet after his friend’s premature death. An illustrated biographical chronology charts their intersecting lives and careers. This lavishly illustrated, in-depth study offers an opportunity to reevaluate some of the most canonical French artworks of the nineteenth century, including Manet’s Olympia, Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker, and other masterworks.