"The RA’s exhibition ‘Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement’ sets out to present Degas in a new light. It explores his fascination with movement, expressed through the dance, in the broader context of the technical experiments of his day, particularly photography and early film. Photography, which had emerged around 1839, had, by the 1870s, become all the rage. Photographs proliferated in Degas’ world. Calling cards bearing little photographs, called cartes de visite, were immensely popular. Anyone with the slightest social pretensions had to have one, and for the stars of the world of entertainment, ballet and opera, they were an effective publicity tool. Celebrities’ cartes de visite were eagerly collected and pasted into albums." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Royal Academy of Arts
On: RA Magazine Autumn 2011
Website: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
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