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Author:   Dr. Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781350258747

ISBN 10:   1350258741
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 January 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Colour Plates List of Figures Introduction Influence and Antagonism Art out of Time Structure and Approach 1. Degas and the School of London R. B. Kitaj and the Anxious Condition of Art Making The Anti-Dreyfusard Master Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach Draw Degas 2. Influence as Excess Misogyny Paula Rego’s Dog Women Cecily Brown: New Provocations 3. Vitrines, Vacancy, and Immanent Things: Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer Medicine and Moral Judgment: Damien Hirst Entangled Histories: Yinka Shonibare Ryan Gander’s Empathetic Storytelling 4. Degas Doubled Rebecca Warren as Twin Juan Muñoz and Miss La La’s Legacy 5. Pearl Divers: Prying Loose the Past Maggi Hambling’s Monotypes: Queer Phenomenology and the Gaze Chantal Joffe’s Bathers: Self and Other Xinyi Cheng: Modern Masculinities 6. The Final Act Jenny Saville: Colour Shock Howard Hodgkin’s Hero Conclusion Cy Twombly and Degas’s Hat Degas Unbound Notes Bibliography Index

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"""Thoughtfully positioning the work of Edgar Degas in dialogue with that of certain contemporary artists, Brown compellingly reveals not just his ongoing relevance, but also the rich possibilities presented by an art history that is global, diverse, non-linear and inclusive."" --MARNI KESSLER, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas, USA ""Kathryn Brown makes an adventurous charting of the cultural, social, and aesthetic loops and swoops of Degas's art through the practices of leading contemporary artists. Dialogical and tantalisingly transversal in its sights and insights, vivid in its writing, this book is a major advance in art criticism."" --SUSAN HARROW, Ashley Watkins Professor of French, University of Bristol, UK ""Exhilarating in her focus on women and 'minority' painters, Kathryn Brown recalibrates our understanding of Degas through the prism of modern art. Brown's vivid analysis of post-WWII artists' engagement with Degas - including Kitaj, Rego, Hambling, Xinyi Cheng and Twombly - explores the enduring impact of Degas's provocative art."" --ANTHEA CALLEN, Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture, and Professor Emeritus, The Australian National University, Australia ""Bringing Degas' oeuvre thrillingly to life, this book demonstrates how, in grappling with his more problematic aspects, contemporary artists have added a whole range of complexities of their own."" --REBECCA FORTNUM, Professor of Fine Art and Head of the School of Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art, UK"

Author Information

Kathryn Brown is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University, UK. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Henri Matisse (2021). She is the series editor of Contextualizing Art Markets (Bloomsbury).

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