Dealing with Degas : Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision

This is a collection of essays based on the papers by leading Degas experts given at the Table Gallery, Liverpool in 1989 as well as further American academics, especially commissioned for this book.

The text demonstrates the diversity of approaches and issues generated around the problematic material of Degas' images of women, combining art history, cultural theory and psychology.

Richard Kendall is an art historian and organizer of the Liverpool conference.