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Peter Campbell, 4 July 1985
Degas: His Life, Times and Work
by Roy McMullen.
Secker, 517 pp., £18.50, March 1985,9780436276477 Show More
by Roy McMullen.
Secker, 517 pp., £18.50, March 1985,
Degas: The Dancers
by George Shackelford.
Norton, 151 pp., £22.95, March 1985,0 393 01975 6 Show More
by George Shackelford.
Norton, 151 pp., £22.95, March 1985,
Degas Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings
by Götz Adriani.
Thames and Hudson, 408 pp., £35, May 1985,0 500 09168 4 Show More
by Götz Adriani.
Thames and Hudson, 408 pp., £35, May 1985,
Bricabracomania: The Bourgeois and the Bibelot
by Rémy de Saisselin.
Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £12.50, February 1985,0 500 23424 8 Show More
by Rémy de Saisselin.
Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £12.50, February 1985,
“... ignorant and unnecessary: ‘I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art,’ he said to George Moore, ‘and they have not understood ... but among people who understand words are not necessary: you say humph, he, ha, and everything has been said.’ Critics not only rush in where there is nothing to be said, what they do say is glib: ‘Painting is ... ”
