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Excerpt from Degas: An Intimate Portrait
The present volume makes no pretence of being other than the most informal of biographies, composed of notes jotted down casually and bits out of the author''s experience in the course of his long and pleasant acquaintance with the artist. It is difficult, indeed, to write of Degas in any other way, for the personality of this deft portrayer of little ballet rats and race-courses is as elusive as one of those canvases of his, in which the grace and beauty of a ?eeting movement have been captured and recorded for all time. A race-horse pawing the ground, a laundress ironing a shirt, a dancer tieing her shoe all these arrested movements have been imbued with perma nence by the magic of his brush.
The incidental note struck in his pictures seems true also of his life. Like most geniuses he was essentially independent of events, persons, and places, refusing to be limited by time and disregarding as unimportant everything which did not include and enrich his work.
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The present volume makes no pretence of being other than the most informal of biographies, composed of notes jotted down casually and bits out of the author''s experience in the course of his long and pleasant acquaintance with the artist. It is difficult, indeed, to write of Degas in any other way, for the personality of this deft portrayer of little ballet rats and race-courses is as elusive as one of those canvases of his, in which the grace and beauty of a ?eeting movement have been captured and recorded for all time. A race-horse pawing the ground, a laundress ironing a shirt, a dancer tieing her shoe all these arrested movements have been imbued with perma nence by the magic of his brush.
The incidental note struck in his pictures seems true also of his life. Like most geniuses he was essentially independent of events, persons, and places, refusing to be limited by time and disregarding as unimportant everything which did not include and enrich his work.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Ambroise Vollard
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266434290
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 178
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Ambroise Vollard
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781334490316
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 180
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