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Degas and the laundress : women, work, and impressionism
- Title
- Degas and the laundress : women, work, and impressionism / Britany Salsbury ; with contributions by Aleksandra Bursac, Michelle Foa, Gretchen Schultz, Charles Sowerwine, Richard Thomson, and Claire White.
- Publication
- Cleveland, OH : The Cleveland Museum of Art, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- xiii, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 32 cm
- Summary
- "An exploration of Edgar Degas's laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women's work in the nineteenth century."--
- Alternative Title
- Women, work, and impressionism
- Subject
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 > Exhibitions
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917
- 1800-1899
- Laundresses in art > Exhibitions
- Laundresses > France > Social conditions > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Laundresses in art > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Laundresses > France > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Laundresses
- Laundresses in art
- France
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the Degas and the laundress: women, work, and impressionism, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 8, 2023, to January 14, 2024"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Degas and the laundress / Britany Salsbury -- Degas on French textiles, the transatlantic cotton trade, and the word of ironing / Michelle Foa -- The skillful, the social, and the scurrilous: the imagery of the laundress in naturalist painting / Richard Thomson -- Putting people in their place: class and gender in Degas's Paris / Charles Sowerwine -- Working-class women, alcohol, and Degas's Women Ironing / Gretchen Schultz -- Idyll to industry: infrastructures of cleanliness in nineteenth-century France / Aleksandra Bursac -- The stench of the people: on the mania for Émile Zola's L'Assommoir / Claire White -- Plates / Britany Salsbury -- Appendixes -- Catalogue raisonné of Degas's laundress works / Britany Salsbury -- Chronology: Degas's life and the Parisian laundry industry, 1785-1919 / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse -- Writings from Degas's time about his laundress works / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse.
- Call Number
- JQG 24-153
- ISBN
- 9780300273229
- 0300273223
- LCCN
- 2023938414
- OCLC
- 1375550065
- Title
- Degas and the laundress : women, work, and impressionism / Britany Salsbury ; with contributions by Aleksandra Bursac, Michelle Foa, Gretchen Schultz, Charles Sowerwine, Richard Thomson, and Claire White.
- Publisher
- Cleveland, OH : The Cleveland Museum of Art, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Salsbury, Britany, author.Bursac, Aleksandra, contributor.Foa, Michelle, 1975- contributor.Schultz, Gretchen, 1960- contributor.Sowerwine, Charles, 1943- contributor.Thomson, Richard, 1953- contributor.White, Claire, 1985- contributor.Cleveland Museum of Art, issuing body, host institution.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 24-153