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“Because We CanCanCan …”: The Moulin Rouge, the Demi-Monde, and the Spaces
of (Post-)Impressionism
Dec. 9
NO Readings
Film: MOULIN ROUGE
Premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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Henri Fantin-Latour, L’Atelier aux Batignolles, 1870
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Jean-Frédéric Bazille, L’Atelier d’Artiste, 9 rue de la Condamine, 1870
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Linda Nochlin
Edmond de Goncourt, contemporary of Zola: “there are no women of genius, and … if
they manifest it, it is by some trick of nature, in the sense that they are men.” (quoted
from Frascina)
female Impressionist painters: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Eva Gonzalez
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demi-mondaines
Institutions:
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Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Expositions Universelles
Renoir, La Loge, 1874
Mary Cassatt, Woman in Black at the Opera, 1879
Renoir, The First Outing, 1876
Pretty Woman (1990), starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts and directed by Garry
Marshall
La Traviata (translated as ‘The Fallen Woman’)
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Opera in three acts by GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901) to a libretto by
FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE after ALEXANDRE DUMAS (II)’s play La dame
aux camélias; premiered in Venice at the famous opera house “Teatro La Fenice”
on March 6, 1853.
Cabaret
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Henri(-Marie-Raymond) de Toulouse-Lautrec (Montfa)
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born in Albi, Tarn, on Nov, 24 1864; died Château de Malromé, near Langon,
Gironde, on Sept 9, 1901
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1891 first poster: “Moulin Rouge—La Goulue.”
Miss Loïe Fuller, 1893
Ms. Bryant
Jacques [Jacob] Offenbach:
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b Cologne, 20 June 1819; d Paris, 5 Oct 1880
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French composer of German origin. He was, with Johann Strauss (ii), one of the
two composers of outstanding significance in popular music of the 19th century
and the composer of some of the most exhilaratingly gay and tuneful music ever
written.
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Orphée aux Enfers: Opéra-féerie in 4 acts, Libretto: Hector Crémieux et Ludovic
Halvéy; Music by Jacques Offenbach
French CanCan (1955 France), directed and written by Jean Renoir with Jean Gabin,
Maria Félix, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Michel Piccoli, Max Dalban,
Gaston Modot, Valentine Tessier, Edith Piaf, Patachou, and the voice of Cora Vaucaire.
lithograph “Au salon de la rue des Moulins” (“At the Salon”). 1896 from series “Elles”
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