La ligne d’Yvette Guilbert La mise en silhouette comme dispositif de vision et technique de distinction

Yvette Guilbert (1865-1943), famous diseuse fin de siècle, manufactures, or rather, distinguishes her very artefact stage presence, heavily influenced by contemporary art. Exploiting her own physical flaws, she develops a body “manifesto”, responding to the canons of a silhouette that increasingly challenge everyday behaviour. The contribution unfolds the context of critical references, literary and cultural imaginations and body techniques that have contributed to the definition of her icon status in a continuous interplay between (self)representations and intimate perception of the body.