书名：Edgar Degas Sculpture /埃德加·德加雕塑（美国国家美术馆图录）
定价：880.0
ISBN：9780691148977
作者：Suzanne Glover Lindsay
版次：1
出版时间：2011-01

内容提要：

题 目：Edgar Degas Sculpture /埃德加·德加雕塑（美国国家美术馆图录）

作 者：Suzanne Glover Lindsay

出 版：Princeton University Press，2011

装 帧：精装，408页

尺 寸：24*28.5 cm

语 种：英语

 

作为一名艺术家，埃德加·德加（1834 - 1917）很难用简单的语言来描述。他因致力于描绘现代生活而与法国印象派画家联系在一起，但他也走了一条独立的道路，比起色彩和明显的笔触，他更偏爱线条，而且他在室内画室创作，而非户外。他或许作为画家最为人所知，但他最广为人知的作品却是一件雕塑——《十四岁的小舞者》。这件雕塑以蜡制成，近乎真人大小，小舞者身着芭蕾舞裙，脚穿真正的芭蕾舞鞋，还配有真实的头发。1881年该雕塑展出时引起了轰动。这是德加唯一公开展出过的雕塑，尽管在他去世后，人们在他的画室里发现了一百多件雕塑作品——有舞者、马匹和沐浴者等形象——全都布满灰尘，有些已经散架。在他去世后的近四十年里，这些作品仅通过他的继承人根据原作铸造的青铜雕塑为人所知。然后，在1955年，这些蜡制原作现身艺术市场。多亏了保罗·梅隆的慧眼与慷慨，如今大部分作品都保存在华盛顿的国家美术馆，其中多数长期展出。

这本具有开创性的著作通过将艺术与科学相联系，向这份非凡的馈赠致敬。它汇集了一位研究19世纪绘画与雕塑的杰出艺术史学家的深刻见解，以及国家美术馆修复师和科学家的专业知识，这些修复师和科学家曾发表过具有开创性的技术研究。书中包含关于德加生平与作品、他的雕塑技法和材料，以及其去世后雕塑作品流传故事的文章，对藏品中的每一件作品都进行了艺术史和技术层面的探讨，还附有不可或缺的索引和参考书目。这本图文并茂的书籍既面向艺术爱好者，也适合专业人士阅读。德加这位雕塑家是技术欠佳，还是独具匠心？我们如何从他的绘画、版画和摄影作品的角度来理解他的雕塑？这些问题以及其他诸多问题都得到了独到而深入的探讨，极大地增进了我们对19世纪后期艺术先锋派的理解，也加深了我们对这位颇具争议的艺术家的欣赏。

As an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Allied with the French impressionists through his commitment to portraying modern life, he also took an independent course, preferring line over color and the visible brushstroke, and working in a studio instead of out-of-doors. He is perhaps best known as a painter, but his most widely known work is a sculpture, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Executed in wax, near life-sized, dressed in a ballerina’s tutu, with real ballet slippers and real hair, the sculpture caused a sensation when it was exhibited in 1881. It is the only sculpture Degas ever showed publicly, though more than one hundred?—?of dancers, horses, and bathers?—?were found in his studio after he died, all dusty, some fallen apart. For almost forty years after his death, these works were known only through the bronzes his heirs had cast from the originals.Then, in 1955, the waxes themselves appeared on the art market. Thanks to the discernment and generosity of Paul Mellon, the majority are now preserved at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, most on permanent display.

This groundbreaking volume honors this extraordinary gift by linking art and science. It brings together the insights of a distinguished art historian of nineteenth-century painting and sculpture and the specialized knowledge of National Gallery conservators and scientists who have published pioneering technical studies. Including essays on Degas’ life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death, it features art-historical and technical discussions of every work in the collection as well as indispensable concordances and bibliography. The richly illustrated text is intended for both art lover and specialist. Was Degas the sculptor technically inept or unusually inventive? How do we understand his sculpture in light of his paintings, prints, and photographs? These questions and many others are explored with originality and depth, adding immeasurably to our understanding of the artistic avant-garde in the late nineteenth century and to our appreciation of this controversial artist.