Degas: The Painter of Modern Life: Memories of Degas
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Degas: The Painter of Modern Life: Memories of Degas Details
About the Author George Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish writer of novels, poetry, plays, and art criticism. His first ambition was to be a painter, and he spent much of the 1870s in Paris, where he came to know many of the leading figures in art and literature. Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was an esteemed art critic. He became one of the most powerful followers of Degas in England, and an important link between Impressionism and Modernism. Anna Gruetzner Robins is is the coauthor of Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910 and the author of A Fragile Modernism. Read more
Reviews
This book is a reprint of Walter Sickert and George Moore's reminiscences of Degas published in the Burlington Magazine in 1917 and 18. This could've been a wonderful little book. Unfortunately at least half the French-language quotations from Degas are left untranslated, and those that are translated are often not properly referenced in the text. The book is on glossy paper and the ink paper combination makes it difficult to read--it catches glare like crazy. The quality of the reproductions is okay, but not great--and as with the text, it's very shiny and it can be challenge to find an angle at which you can actually see the entire art. The binding feels cheap too.This could've been a wonderful little book--a perfect book to slip into your pocket and read on the bus, or to give as a small gift. But it's not. It's a half-assed, half-translated, overpriced reprint. Very disappointing.
