movement aimed atnothing outside itself. According to this view, a ballerina's sexual identity plays norole, for shemakes her body into "an object whose transformations necessarilyrecall the function a poet gives to his mind."5Her body, in other words, is a met-aphor for the leaps, ...
Unlike pastel drawings and paintings on canvas, Degas did not produce a comprehensive collection of ballerina-inspired sculptures. However, the one that he did create—Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen—has become one of his most famous dancer depictions. Degas sculpted the wax figurine in 1880 and ex...
When she returned to New York, Stroman met with lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty.Ahrens and Flahertyare best-known for their legendary musicalRagtime, which won the Tony Award for Best Score in 1998. Stroman was eager to brainstorm with them about her “...
Degas’s affluence was not unique among the painters of his day. His young friend Daniel Halévy called him “one of the children of the Second Empire,” a period that had produced an enormously rich bourgeoisie. These artists, Halévy said, included “the Manets, the Degas, the Cézannes,...
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but his father expected him to go to law school. Degas duly enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, in November 1853, but applied little effort to his studies. In 1855, Degas met Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whom he revered, and whose advice he never forgot: "Draw...
at this time became less remote and more actively engaged with the top-hatted, restless world in which he lived. When he met Manet about 1862, Degas developed an affectionate but pointed rivalry with the slightly older man and soon shared something of Manet’s oppositionalstancetoward the artist...