The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse 1830-1930 (Legenda, Research Monographs in French Studies)

by JulieTownsend (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $102.38

  Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, under the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an emblem of their own artistic prowess.