Degas : portraits

Contents: Degas as a portraitist ; A chronology for Degas as a portraitist / Jean Sutherland Boggs -- Portraits as pictures : Degas between taking a likeness and making a work of art (tableau) / Emil Maurer -- Between convention and innovation : the portrait in France in the nineteenth century / Pierre Vaisse -- Portraiture between tradition and avantgarde : Proust and Degas / Luzius Keller -- Degas's printed portraits / Barbara Stern Shapiro -- Degas's copies / Emil Maurer -- Degas's early self-portraits / Felix Baumann -- Family portraits ; Friends and acquaintances / Tobia Bezzola -- Facing defacement : Degas's portraits of women / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Au Milieu des Artistes et des Hommes de Lettres / Marianne Karabelnik -- Portraits and genre / Tobia Bezzola -- Portraits : painting and photography / Antoine Terrasse. Accompanies exhibition held at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, 2 December 1994 - 5 March 1995 and at the Kunsthalle, Tübingen, 18 March 1995 - 18 June 1995. 372 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm. First English edition, first printing. Grey cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.