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Forty-one full-page, six half-page drawings depict dancers on stage, in the classroom, and at rehearsals. Charming, spirited views of dancers pirouetting, executing grand battements and ports de bras, practicing at the barre, and more.
He addressed the routine of the practice room, the drabness of backstage life, the moment of transformation as performers left or entered the stage, and the squalid, amorous adventures between the ballerinas and the black-suited, top-hatted, and often sinister gentlemen who sought their favors after a performance.
An iconic painting - Dancing girl by Edgar Degas. Use this Journal/Diary/Notebook to write in, doodle in, draw in. Great gift for women, girls (especially dancers) and fine art lovers. 120 blank lined cream paper 6 x 9 inches. Perfect size to fit in a handbag
Seeks to illuminate the themes present in the artist's works, presenting new material about Degas's highly informed relationship with the ballet of the nineteenth century.
Carefully reproduced from a rare 1923 limited edition, most of these magnificent drawings are unavailable elsewhere in published form. Dancers, nudes, portraits, travel scenes, and more. 100 drawings, including 8 in full color.
A famous painter concentrates on the art of ballet in this fully illustrated guide, which combines text and line drawings to provide an insight into the world of the classical dancer. The dancer is shown, normally offstage, as the embodiment of an art form.
Edgar Degas' images of ballet dancers and women lost in thought and free from conscious restraint are brought to life in this text, which rejects some classical interpretations and illustrates the novelty of Degas' style.
A catalog of artwork from an exhibition at the Portland Art Museum which displays works in which dancers are the subject by Edgar Degas and his students Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean-Louis Forain.
Through Edgar Degas’s beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his artwork, Degas captures every moment, from the relentless hours of practice to the glamour of appearing on stage, revealing a dancer’s journey from novice to prima ballerina. Observing young students, Degas drew their poses again and again, determined to achieve perfection. The book includes a brief biography of his entire life, endnotes, bibliography, where to see his paintings, and an index.
"The Dance" by Margaret West Kinney is a book about dance as a form of art. The writing includes a chapter of explanation of the salient steps of the ballet. These steps, with superficial variations and additions, form the basis also of all-natural or "character" dances that can lay claim to any consideration as interpretative art. Direct practical instruction is furnished on the subject of present-day ballroom dancing, to the extent of clear and exact directions for the performance of steps now fashionable in Europe and America. Some notable titles are: The "Schuhplatteltanz" Classic Ballet Positions Fundamental Positions of the Feet The "Tango" Development of an Arch "À La Pirouette", etc.