Degas and His Model - Alice Model (ekphrasis series) democracy Sometimes you don’t get out

Sometimes you don’t get out of bed at all

Good food is the common ground shared by all of us

readers cannot help but nod their heads over and over again

the use of metaphors and irony in speech

Gertrude Stein

Degas and His Model - Alice Model (ekphrasis series) democracy Sometimes you don’t get outThere are many myths about the artist Edgar Degasfrom Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. moreNever before translated into English, the texts original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artists death, has been treated as an important