The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso

Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1999. Hardcover. VG/G, large tear to back of dust jacket. Black cloth with blind stamp lettering; color-illustrated dj with white lettering; 336 pp. full of duotone and color images. Catalogue from the exhibition held October 2, 1999 to January 4, 2000 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and from February 1 to May 7, 2000 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Studies the paintings, sculptures and photographs of Bonnard, Brancusi, Degas, Gauguin, Khnopff, Moreau, Much, Munch, Picasso, Rodin, Rosso, Von Stuck, Vallotton and Vuillard. "This book offers an alternative account of the place of photography in late nineteenth and early (truncated) twentieth century art history. In contrast to previous investigations, which have tended to align photography and realism, this book situates the photograph at the heart of the Symbolist aesthetic. Though many of the artists in this exhibition publicly renounced photography, each engaged in a highly creative dialogue with the medium. (Inventory #: 165254)