Contributor
Salsbury, Britany.
ImprintCleveland, OH : The Cleveland Museum of Art, [2023]
ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press
Descriptionxiii, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
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.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index.
Note:"An exploration of Edgar Degas's laundress works and their significance within broader debates about art, urban life, and women's work in the nineteenth century." --Dust jacket.
