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The Dancer: Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec
by Annette Dixon ; Mary Weaver Chapin ; Jill Devonyar ; Richard Kendall ; Florence Valdes-Forain
Binding: Hardcover, 254 pages
Publisher: Portland Art Museum
Weight: 4.2 pound
Dimension: H: 0.6 x L: 12.2 x W: 10 inches
ISBN 10: 1883124271
ISBN 13: 9781883124274
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Artists in late 19th-century France produced some of Europe's most celebrated and revolutionary works of art. Among those innovators are Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who captured the renowned dancers of Paris in paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculptures, creating potent icons of a unique time, place, and culture. Each sought to portray rapidly changing urban life, concentrating on the human figure in its social context. The dancer proved to be a fruitful subject for their investigations of modernity.
Degas focused on the artifice of the performance and the harsh daily life of the dancer. Drawing on his background as a newspaper illustrator, Forain's vignettes focus on backstage flirtations between social unequals, especially their exploitative aspects. By contrast, Lautrec's paintings, prints, and posters of celebrity dancers reveal his uncritical acceptance of the sexual commerce that was part of the popular entertainment scene of Montmartre.

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