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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-22 - Publisher: David Zwirner Books

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Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif,
Thrust
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-26 - Publisher: David Zwirner Books

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Degas and His Model
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Authors: Alice Michel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-22 - Publisher: David Zwirner Books

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There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that be
Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter
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“Criticism is our censorship . . .” So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin wrote “Racontars de
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Selections from Romaine Brooks’s unpublished memoir No Pleasant Memories expose the psyche and practice of this underrecognized queer, female artist. Most kno