Edgar Degas In the late 1880’s, artist Edgar Degas produced one of his famous sculpture works, The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer. Within his sculpture series, Degas brings about movement, by dealing with femininity, identity, and how a young female is represented within his ballerina sculptures. Degas explores femininity within his ballerina artworks more specifically within his sculptures. In the book In the Art od Art History, a critical anthology, he explains the variety of ways in which we portray art history through aesthetics, form, context and style, anthropology, authorship, and the phenomenon of globalization. Through Preziosi’s book we can explore how it all relates to the sculpture artwork of Degas, as well as try and decode
