Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec

by Robins, Anna Gruetzner; Thomson, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781854376343
• ISBN10: 1854376349
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

"Between 1870 and 1910 the burgeoning populations and hectic speed of life in London and Paris fascinated artists on both sides of the English Channel. French artists such as Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec pioneered new ways of representing city life, profoundly influencing many British artists." "This publication examines the exciting and controversial exchange of pictorial and aesthetic ideas that took place as British art adapted to modernity, and explores the rich interplay between the making, exhibiting and collecting of new figurative art." "The pivotal figures in this cross-cultural dialogue are Degas, hailed in Britain as a genius; Sickert, whose Degas-inspired art explored the gritty, urban side of modern life; and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose largest one-man show was staged in Regent Street, London. Works by these and other key artists, including Vuillard, Bonnard, Tissot, Whistler, Steer and Rothenstein, involved society portraiture and posters, scenes of the street and public entertainment, creating evocative images of the decadence and spectacle of the fin-de-siecle metropolis."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Richard Thomson is Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	p. 6
Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Modernity, Figure, Metropolis: Importing the New Painting to Britain in the 1870s	p. 15
The Greatest Artist the World Has Ever Known	p. 51
Exporting Style and Decadence: The Exchanges of the 1890s	p. 95
Sickert and the Paris Art World	p. 155
Chronology	p. 202
The L'Absinthe Controversy	p. 208
Notes	p. 212
Select Bibliography	p. 216
Artists and Works in the Exhibition	p. 219
Lenders and Credits	p. 228
Index	p. 229
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