Colloquium in Visual Culture with Dr. Martha Lucy
Dr. Martha Lucy, deputy director for research, interpretation, and education at The Barnes Foundation, presents "Men Watching Women Watching Themselves: The Curious Erotics of the Nineteenth-Century Toilette."
Toilette scenes showing women primping before a mirror—applying makeup, lacing up corsets, brushing out hair—were everywhere in late nineteenth-century Paris. This talk will explore the widespread practice, detailed in French novels as well as in art and visual culture, of men paying for the privilege of watching a woman perform these intimate rituals. Why did the fashioning of one’s self-image hold so much erotic potential in the nineteenth-century imagination? How might we deconstruct the complex network of gazes at work in these images?
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