Splendours & miseries : images of prostitution in France, 1850-1910 / curators, Nienke Bakker, Isolde Pludermacher, Marie Robert, Richard Thomson.

"Through painting, photography, sculpture, the decorative arts and cinema, as well as wealth of documentary material, the exhibition Splendours & miseries : images of prostitution in France, 1850-1910 is an invitation to examine in depth topics that resonate with contemporary preoccupations. Moving...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Splendeurs & misères. English
Corporate Authors: Musée d'Orsay (Author, Host institution)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Host institution)
Other Authors: Bakker, Nienke, 1972- (Contributor)
Pludermacher, Isolde (Contributor)
Robert, Marie (Museum curator) (Contributor)
Thomson, Richard, 1953- (Contributor)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Paris : Musée d'Orsay : Flammarion, [2015]
Edition:English language edition.
Subjects:
Prostitution in art > Exhibitions.
Art, French > 19th century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Art, French > 20th century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Prostitution > France > History > 19th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
Prostitution > France > History > 20th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
Photography > France > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Art, French > Themes, motives.
Photography > Themes, motives.
Prostitution.
Prostitution in art.
France.
Prostituerade i konsten.
Prostitution > historia.
1800-1999
1850-1910
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
History.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Pictorial works
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
History.
Physical Description:307 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Variant Title:
Splendours and miseries
Images of prostitution in France, 1850-1910
Splendors & miseries
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Splendours and miseries : interpreting an imagery of social contradictions and sexual control / Richard Thomson
  • Âpres vertiges (tough times) : prostitutional arrangements and excesses during the second half of the nineteenth century / Gabrielle Houbre
  • Those women they call "girls" / Mireille Dottin-Orsini et Daniel Grojnowski
  • The photographer, the model and body trafficking / Marie Robert
  • Ambiguity, allure and uncertainty / Richard Thomson
  • Maisons closes : the brothel as a modern subject / Nienke Bakker
  • The grandes horizontales / Richard Thomson
  • Fantasies and allegories of vice / Richard Thomson
  • "The beautiful in the horrible" : prostitution and modernity / Isolde Pludermacher.