THE PAINTER OF MODERN DANCE EDGAR DEGAS WAS OBSESSED WITH CLASSICAL BALLET. BUT HIS RADICAL BACKSTAGE VIEW HELPED PREPARE THE WAY FOR AN ENTIRELY NEW ART OF MOVEMENT.

The Boston Globe | May 11, 2003| | Copyright

AMONG THE MANY PLEASURES of "Degas and the Dance," the exhibition that ends its smash run today at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are the unexpected connections prompted by looking at a group of pictures on the same theme. Just as repeating a word over and over can gradually call into question the strangeness of speech, seeing so many of Edgar Degas's familiar dance pictures together in one place can transform images that have become cliches into an odd and bracing experience again.

The importance of photography for Degas, a decades-old theme in scholarship about the artist, pops up again ...

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