ARTH 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Geisha, Satin, Mid-Century Modern
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Modern life took on new form in the 19th century. Doesn(cid:495)t just mean what was contemporary, not only economic, social, political shifts, but also changes in subjectivity. Manet, female shop owner with upper class guy. Problematizes labour for us, and marking out the middle class (starch shirt) Vs. renoir, luncheon of the boating party at bougival, 1881. Modern informality that breaks away from academic traditions. Degas, dancer in her dressing room, c. 1880. Notoriety of ballet dancers, not considered the way like now as upper class performance art; no upper class dance/expose body in public, not a high. Art in 19th century, more like a chorus that accompanied the opera. Dancers called (cid:494)ballet rats (cid:494), associated with working class, crossing class bourgeoisie of (cid:494)jocky club(cid:495) that funded the construction of opera house, vips who could meet the dancers one on one before/after performance. Always a bourgeois speculator in the picture boundaries, sexually active, could be carriers of disease, mistress of.
