Dealing with Degas : representations of women and the politics of vision. 1992, 66-79, 9 ill. (1 col.)
Publisher
HarperCollins, London (gbr)
Publication country
United Kingdom
Abstract
(en)
The lack of consistency in interpretation by 19th and 20th cs. commentators on Degas's pastel-enhanced monotype Women in Front of a Café, Evening (Paris, Musée d'Orsay), is attributed to the straddling and eliding of the iconographic categories established by other artworks on the subject of prostitutes, and the idiosyncratic, allusive syntax of body and gesture. Submits that the imprecise narrative and blurred handling of painted detail does not denote an intellectual or moral detachment on the part of the artist, but rather serves to fix an identity for prostitutes, and has a specific sexual politics.
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