Origins and dating -- Exhibition, casting, and technique -- The place of Degas' sculpture in his oeuvre -- Aspects of French nineteenth-century sculptural style -- Degas and the classical tradition -- Degas and the romantic tradition -- The personal roots of Degas' sculptural style -- The development of Degas' sculptural style -- Degas and the search for a modernist sculpture -- Appendix: Critical reaction to the exhibition of the Little Dancer in 1881.
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