Erotic Photography by Alexandre Dupoy

Author:Alexandre Dupoy [Dupouy, Alexandre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783107308
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE EUPHORIC ECSTASY

OF THE CRAZY YEARS

MUSIC-HALL, YVA RICHARD VERSUS DIANA-SLIP, VIDAL AND GRUNDWORTH, MR X

After having made parodies in the army theatres of the femininity of the café concert actresses who were far from the front lines, the soldiers, having returned to civilian life, were able at last to find once more the idealised woman that they had dreamed about in the trenches. Meanwhile, stage artists would get round the question of nudity by being smothered in thick body stockings. Some would reveal themselves timidly, thus showing that the progressive conquest of nudity also took place in the theatre and more particularly in the music-hall; at first in 1910 in an operetta at the Concert Mayol, and then two years later at Les Folies Bergère, where a woman portraying Eve sitting imposingly on a flower-decked float, entered on stage personifying Love.

Taking advantage of the euphoric ecstasy that reigned at the end of hostilities, the Casino de Paris decided that all of its dancers would appear nude for its show “Paris dances.” People were fascinated by naked women whose image was easily affordable, and the prudish denouncers of vice were scandalised. However, the movement had reached the point of no return. The effect of shock at the end of the Great War brought about a liberating explosion of artistic movements on both sides of the Rhine, for example, Dada, Bauhaus, The Paris School, Surrealism and Cubism. It was the coming of a new world. In just a few years, the dynamism and the joy of life generated by the music-hall shows rejuvenated the atmosphere on stage which became the center for the exhibition of nudity. The Crazy Years were at their peak. After the bloody years of the war, the survivors thought only of sampling all the pleasures. Le Tabarin, Le Moulin Rouge and Les Folies Bergère reflected this prevailing spirit of pleasure, and were an excellent alibi for proposing nude women to spectators. This was far from the time when Monsieur Courtelat du Roché, nicknamed Father Modesty, would check the undergarments of La Goulue and her friends for the presence of suitable attire.

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