Deborah Goldberg
Manet and Degas: Formulating Modernism
Summary
The exhibition “Manet/Degas” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays the friendly rivalry of the painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Although both artists established themselves as Realists at the Salon, Degas left to become a founding member of the Impressionist group. This lecture looks at their similar subjects and how they challenged each other, thus stimulating the drive towards Modernism.
Deborah Goldberg
Deborah A. Goldberg (PhD, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) is an art historian and writer. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts, and lectures regularly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. She wrote the catalogue for the exhibition Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow at the M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University (2015) and co-edited and contributed a chapter to the book Alexander Archipenko Revisited: An International Perspective (2008).