Select Bibliography on Degas

Boggs, Jean Sutherland, Henri Loyrette, Michael Pantazzi, and Gary Tinterow. Degas. New York and Ottawa: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Gallery of Canada, 1988.

Callen, Anthea. The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.

Herbert, Robert L. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.

Kendall, Richard and Griselda Pollock, eds. Dealing with Degas. London: Pandora, 1992.

Kendall, Richard. Degas: Beyond Impressionism London: National Gallery Publications in association with the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.

Lipton, Eunice. Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

McMullen, Roy. Degas: His Life, Times, and Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

Moffet, Charles S. The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986.

Nochlin, Linda. The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989.

Reff, Theodore. Degas: The Artist's Mind. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976.

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionsim. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987.

Thomson, Richard. Degas: The Nudes. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.

Tinterow, Gary and Henri Loyrette. Origins of Impressionism. New York: The Metropolitan Museum Art, 1994.

Varnedoe, Kirk. A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990.

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