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01/29/2026 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Plaster sculpture of a dynamic, muscular figure in a twisting pose on a metal base, against a plain gray background.

Exhibition Lecture

The Caress of Rodin’s fingers’: Dance and Embodied Viewing in Auguste Rodin’s Sculpture

Juliet Bellow

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture explores how Rodin created the same tactile, intimate viewing experience with his sculptures of dancers, including his Nijinsky (1912). Designed to be held in the hand rather than fixed on a base, this sculpture instantiates an encounter with the viewer’s body that is both mobile and sexualized, in deliberate homage to Vaslav Nijinsky’s scandalous 1912 ballet Afternoon of a Faun.
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