Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 12:
Degas, Manet, Morisot
Paul Valéry
Edited by Jackson Mathews
Translated by D. Paul

Paper | 1989 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-01882-9
295 pp.
Cloth | 1960 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-09839-5
263 pp.

The full text of Valéry's book on Degas, with a long essay on Corot, others on Berthe Morisot, Manet, and Daumier, a personal recollection of Renoir, and writings on sculpture, portraiture, Italian painting, and several minor arts.

Review:

"Poet, essayist, and member of the French Academy, Paul Valery was, through marriage, brought into a household suffused with the presence and works of a number of outstanding nineteenth-century French painters. This volume . . . sets down Valery's impressions, recollections and ruminations on the artists, their work, and the nature of the creative act. It should be of special interest to art lovers. . . . The first half of the book is devoted to the painter Edgar Degas, concerning whom it is a precious source of information."--Francis Steegmuller, The New York Times Book Review

Series:

• Collected Works of Paul Valery
  Edited by Jackson Mathews

Subject Area:

• Comparative Literature

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