Abstract Edgar Degas’s stay in New Orleans in 1872–73, which marked his only visit to the New World, resulted in two remarkable paintings of a cotton office. Linking Southern cotton to the French textiles he frequently depicted and to his works’ paper supports demonstrates the centrality of the material to the artist’s corpus. More broadly, Degas’s cotton office paintings, as well as drawings and letters produced during his time abroad, reflect his meditation on the connections that bound the Old and New Worlds together and the transportation technology that facilitated the global circulation of people, goods, and communications.

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过境：新世界与旧世界之间的埃德加·德加斯和棉花问题

摘要埃德加·德加斯（Edgar Degas）于1872-73年在新奥尔良逗留，这标志着他唯一一次访问新世界，他创作了两幅关于棉花办公室的杰出画作。将南部的棉花与他经常描绘的法国纺织品以及他的作品的纸质支持联系起来，证明了材料在艺术家主体中的核心地位。更广泛地说，德加的棉花办公室绘画以及他在国外期间制作的图画和信件反映了他对将旧世界和新世界联系在一起的联系以及促进人员，货物和通讯全球流通的运输技术的沉思。 。