Anne Robbins and Chiara Di Stefano; With contributions by Laurie Fierstein, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Denise Murrell, Isolde Pludermacher, and Christopher Riopelle
Prelims (half title/title/colophon, contents)
Director’s foreword
Preface: Miss La La, Black model (Denise Murrell & Isolde Pludermacher)
Essays
1. Degas and Miss La La: genesis of the picture and overview of the
painting’s history (Anne Robbins)
2. Imagery of the acrobat in fin-de-siècle Paris (Chiara Di Stefano)
3. Degas, New Orleans and the question of ‘race’ (Darcy Grimaldo
Grigsby)
Catalogue section
With 6 short section introductions, followed by images of the 45 exhibited
works.
1. Miss La La: Background and success (Laurie Fierstein)
2. Cirque Fernando in Paris: circus and avant-garde (Chiara Di Stefano)
3. Watching, drawing, posing Miss La La: elaboration of the painting (Anne
Robbins)
4. Miss La La, 1879: from performance to exhibition (Anne Robbins)
5. Degas and ‘the Black world’ (Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby)
6. The painting’s afterlife: exhibitions, travels and influence
(Christopher Riopelle)
Endmatter
Chronology (Anne Robbins, Laurie Fierstein and Chiara Di Stefano)
Notes
Bibliography
List of lenders, Acknowledgements
