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

TY - JOUR

T1 - The corset, the bicycle and the Hottentot: Alexandre Falguière’s The Dancer and Cléo de Mérode’s modern feminine body

AU - Waller, Susan

N1 - In 1896, Alexandre Falguière's sculpture The Dancer ( La Danseuse), was the succès de scandale of the Salon des Artistes Français. While the public wondered whether the nude figure indeed represented Cléo de Mérode, a rising star in the ballet of the Opéra de Paris, art critics reacted with unusual vehemence to the work, labeling it a "modern" body and denouncing it as "deformed" or "damaged."

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2017.1370258

U2 - 10.1080/24692921.2017.1370258

DO - 10.1080/24692921.2017.1370258

M3 - Article

VL - 1

JO - Feminist Modernist Studies

JF - Feminist Modernist Studies

ER -