If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend by Alison Pace

Pace emailed Gothamist about her canine characters, doggie yoga, and Type A dog owners. Long Island-raised Pace, a contributing editor at The Bark, graduated from American University with a degree in art history, and now makes the Upper East Side her home, which she shares with her two-year-old dog, Carlie. From dogs getting fed at the dinner table and treated, literally, like family, to DB Sweeney, the dachsund (named after the actor) companion of her third and latest novel, Through Thick and Thin, who captivates lonely restaurant critic Meredith and changes her priorities, Pace makes pets as prominent as her protoganists. While the Portrait of Mademoiselle Fiocre has been discussed alternately by scholars as one of his most peculiar portraits and his first attempt at depicting the ballet, I argue that it may be best read as a depiction of the “Orientalism of modern life” - a sophisticated mélange of the traditional harem scene, a contemporary Orientalist spectacle in Paris, and the devastating isolation that, for Degas, accompanied the arrival of modern life.35-year-old Alison Pace has made a career out of thoughtful chick lit novels set in New York, where man's best friend (dogs), not girls' (diamonds), play the key role. However, by 1868, when Degas produced the Portrait of Mlle Fiocre in the Ballet “La Source,” his strategic plundering of Salon Orientalism and his desire to depict modern life clashed productively. 1861) and Woman with Ibis (1860-62) - manifest this anxiety and fall short of fulfilling his ambitious goals. His early combinations of Near Eastern subjects with motifs from the artistic tradition - Semiramis Building Babylon (c. This paper posits that, in his work of the 1860s, Degas sought to respond to this Orientalist tradition, to reconcile his demonstrated interest in ancient artifacts with his life in modern Paris, and, potentially, to grapple with his perception of himself as an outsider both as an artist and as a Frenchman of mixed heritage. However, in the endless writing about Degas’s appropriations of figures and subjects from other artists, the influence of Ingres and Delacroix as upholders of the French Orientalist tradition has never been taken into account.

In scholarship on Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the artist’s two main idols, Ingres and Delacroix, have remained touchstones for discussing Degas’s approach to dessin and couleur.

If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend by Alison Pace