Beauty Scandals: The Portrait of Madame X

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Once highly scandalous and widely considered ugly, she stands today as an emblem of fashion and of women's self-possession: the one and only Madame X. Her partnership with #johnsingersargent to create the work was full of contention, but the two were proud the results of her portrait... until the Paris Salon of 1884. On this one-painting spotlight episode, we will be discussing women's self-presentation then and now, and what hasn't changed: how much reception of one's "look" matters.

Source Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GWoq53y0hBxvpmc5Yb6zciPR9GKY79hj-ZCTLG1wfzw/edit?usp=sharing