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Article: `DEGAS' PAINTS A CITY WITH AN IMPRESSIONIST'S BRUSH.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

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April 11, 1998
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Byline: C.W. Buchholtz

Degas in New Orleans

By Christopher Benfey.

Alfred A. Knopf, 286 pages, $27.50.

The famed artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), traveled from Paris to New Orleans in 1872, spending five months soaking in Creole culture. For the 38-year-old painter, this brush with America was the result of intense curiosity, but it was also an effort to become acquainted with his mother's hometown.

He found the post-Civil War city struggling with the later stages of Republican Reconstruction. It was a society in flux, slowly regaining its economic vitality, while at the same time it was coming to grips with new political and ...

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