The corset, the bicycle and the Hottentot: Alexandre Falguière’s The Dancer and Cléo de Mérode’s modern feminine body

Susan Waller

doi:10.1080/24692921.2017.1370258

The corset, the bicycle and the Hottentot: Alexandre Falguière’s The Dancer and Cléo de Mérode’s modern feminine body

Susan Waller

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Original language	American English
Journal	Feminist Modernist Studies
Volume	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2017.1370258
State	Published - 2018

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Arts and Humanities
Classical Archaeology and Art History

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The corset, the bicycle and the Hottentot: Alexandre Falguière’s The Dancer and Cléo de Mérode’s modern feminine body

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