Jane Avril e l’automa di Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The essay aims to highlight the representation of Jane Avril developed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the perspective of what could be defined as an aesthetics of hysteria. Of such a representation, consistent with the appearance of the many automatons that are about to invade the artistic scene of the first decades of the twentieth century, Jane Avril would definitely be said to be an accomplice, but in the construction of a character that does not have much to do with her dancing body.