![]() ![]() ![]() With often ambitious, off-kilter vantage points, his images of ballerinas numbered approximately 1,500 works, all deeply invested in the physicality and the discipline of dance. His subjects centered on the teeming, noisy streets of Paris, as well as its leisure entertainments, such as horse racing, cabarets, and, most particularly, ballet. The elder scion of a wealthy family, Degas cofounded a series of exhibitions of "Impressionist" art, but soon disassociated himself from the group in pursuit of a more realist approach. Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style, strongly influenced by Old Masters, the body in motion, and everyday urban life. ![]()
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Between 19 they received no less than 22 awards. In their fifty years of collaboration, the Dillons created some of the most renowned and memorable artwork the publishing industry has ever seen. Child of the Morning (1977), The Eagle and the Raven (1978), and Stargate (1982) were released by The Dial Press and MacMillan of Canada, and The Twelfth Transforming (1984) was published by MacMillan and Harper & Row. The first four of Pauline's novels featured the work of New York-based illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon, commissioned specifically for those novels by the publishers. Her first novel, Child of the Morning, is a literary classic, never out of print for almost forty years. The novels of Canadian author Pauline Gedge have been translated into almost 20 languages around the world. ![]() |