Artists in 1800s shaped sexualized view of laundresses
Robyn Roslak, an associate professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, speaks about images of French laundresses in 19th-century art during her lecture “The Laundress in 19th-Century French Art: Representing the Working-Class Body” Mo
Artists in 1800s shaped sexualized view of laundresses
Although plasma high-definition televisions or glossy magazines did not glow with prismatic colors in 19th century France, society was surrounded by images of women, images that could qualify as sexual in nature.
