Degas Dialogue Difference by Werner Hofmann (9 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2007 Thames & Hudson large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

Large quarto, 320pp, 244 illustrations, 184 in colour, original cloth boards in dustwrapper, faint damp tide mark on front and back boards, small damp stains on dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good tight copy in dust wrapper, oversize book, additional shipping costs may apply.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ dust jacket. Weak crease to jacket at front and rear panel. Text is clean and unmarked. 244 illustrations, 184 in color. ; 12.30 X 10.40 X 1.20 inches; 319 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. An intriguing, marvelously illustrated, landmark survey of this popular painter's work.We tend to think of Degas as an Impressionist who painted lovely ballerinas and lively scenes at the racetrack. As Werner Hofmann so ably demonstrates in his magisterial new study, that viewpoint fails to do justice to the issues that Degas addressed in his art and to how innovative he truly was. Focusing on people in their social environment, on their relationships and their frequent isolation, Degas embraced many kinds of personal alienation in his work.His early paintings depict members of the bourgeoisie mainly in the role of observers (as in The Bellelli Family of 1859). Degas shows them indulging in leisure pursuits, as art collectors and museum visitors, or as members of the public at the theater and the races, but they are self-involved and shrouded in silence.This aura of self-possessed calm contrasts with that of the people who inhabit the world of entertainment. Degas depicted all the stages of public performance: behind the scenes, the performances themselves, and the post-performance collapse of illusion. Hofmann investigates this in various contexts: the self-absorbed body (women at their toilette); the trained body (ballet rehearsals and dancers on stage); musicians; and the marketed body (women in brothels). 215 illustrations, 135 color.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean, bright and crisp hardback copy in a clean and bright pictorial dust jacket. No previous ownership names. There is a tiny crease to the dust jacket at the head of the spine, but overall this is a very fresh and attractive copy.…

Thames and Hudson, London 2007. 4°. 320 pages. Illustrations in b/w and colour. Orig. cloth with dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good+. Slightly curved binding.

folio. pp. 319.244 illus. (184 in colour). index. cloth. dw. First English Edition.