"DEGAS AND THE LITTLE DANCER" par Richard KENDALL. Edition Yale University Press, New Haven – Londres, en collaboration avec The Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. 1998. Imprimé en Italie. Grand in-8, couverture toilée prune sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs (état d'usage). 192 pages. Texte en anglais, avant-propos par John E. Schloder, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques couleurs et noir & blanc, 85 vignettes in-texte et 62 hors texte. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme itinérante au Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, du 07 Février au 03 Mai 1998, au Sterling and Francine Clarke Art Institute, Williamstown, du 30 Mai au 08 Septembre 1998 et au Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, du 04 Octobre 1998 au 03 Janvier 1999.

 

"Degas' sculpture of the Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is one of the most celebrated images of our age. Although it caused immediate controversy when first exhibited in 1881, it is now recognized as the sculptural masterpiece of Impressionism. After the artist's death, the original wax was reproduced in at least thirty plaster and bronze casts that are now scattered throughout the world and inspire delight among museum-goers and continuing debate among art historians. Degas and the Little Dancer is the first full-length study of the subject and offers entirely new perspectives on a work of art that is widely regarded as a key precursor of twentieth-century sculpture. In three chapters, Richard Kendall analyzes the origins of this distinctive figure in Degas' ballet imagery; explores the condition of French sculpture in the 1870s and the significance of Degas' choice of materials, procedures, and exhibition strategy; and describes the critical responses to the first public display of the statuette, particularly those comparing it with dolls and the art of ancient Egypt…"

 

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