M. Degas Steps Out [Signed] An Essay

Hoy, Philip

ISBN 10: 1911379119 / ISBN 13: 9781911379119

Published by Waywiser, 2022

About this Item

Dust jacket is lightly marked from shelving with bumped corners, unclipped; boards are clean with gilt titling, upper corners slightly bumped; binding is tight; pages are crisp and unmarked aside from the author's dedicated signature on title-page. This is a very good copy about a short film made of the artist Degas. ; 6.25 X 0.75 X 9 inches; 96 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 55760

Bibliographic Details

• Title: M. Degas Steps Out [Signed] An Essay
• Publisher: Waywiser
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911379119
• ISBN 13: 9781911379119
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A fascinating forensic study and a scholarly tour de force.' ― Julian Barnes

'Philip Hoy’s protracted examination of a mere nine seconds of film of the aged Edgar Degas walking towards us down a Paris street has the effect of waking us up to the utter strangeness of human life and of the mysterious power of photography and film. Haunting.' ― Gabriel Josipovici, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex

'A truly remarkable piece of work, this beautifully written essay proves to be as affecting as it is enthralling. Hoy is best known as a publisher and editor, but in these pages he steps out as an equally brilliant author. M. Degas Steps Out deserves to find a wide readership.' ― Jonathan Post, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

'An engrossing treat: Philip Hoy’s M. Degas Steps Out examines a short illicit film of Degas in his old age and turns it into an absorbing quest.' ― Miranda Seymour

'What a superb essay – a thrilling page turner and a powerfully moving memento mori. I love Hoy’s patient attention to detail, the way he looks, then looks again, and in describing what he sees dramatizes as vitally as possible the pastness of the past, its vanishing immediacy. A fabulous and riveting piece.' ― Alan Shapiro, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

'M. Degas Steps Out is a triumph of patience and perseverance, observation and speculation, research and imagination, in an ekphrastic genre that as far as I know Philip Hoy has invented. His profound meditation involves exegeses of stills from a nine-second silent, black-and-white film of an aging Edgar Degas taking the air on a Parisian Boulevard. Hoy’s animation of these stills conjures another dimension altogether from that of the ‘movie.’ It makes one think now of Sebald, now of Proust.' ― Stephen Yenser, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles