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Hardcover. Condition: As new. Quarto. Hardcover. Green cloth binding with silver stamped titles in illustrated jacket. xiii, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm. "An exploration of Edgar Degas's laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women's work in the nineteenth century."-- Degas and the laundress / Britany Salsbury -- Degas on French textiles, the transatlantic cotton trade, and the word of ironing / Michelle Foa -- The skillful, the social, and the scurrilous: the imagery of the laundress in naturalist painting / Richard Thomson -- Putting people in their place: class and gender in Degas's Paris / Charles Sowerwine -- Working-class women, alcohol, and Degas's Women Ironing / Gretchen Schultz -- Idyll to industry: infrastructures of cleanliness in nineteenth-century France / Aleksandra Bursac -- The stench of the people: on the mania for Émile Zola's L'Assommoir / Claire White -- Plates / Britany Salsbury -- Appendixes -- Catalogue raisonné of Degas's laundress works / Britany Salsbury -- Chronology: Degas's life and the Parisian laundry industry, 1785-1919 / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse -- Writings from Degas's time about his laundress works / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse. …

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Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorBritany Salsbury is associate curator of prints and drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art.KlappentextAn exploration of Edgar Degas&rsquos laundress works and their significance wit.