The Rosa Bonheur Case – ‘Lesbienne’ the Unsayable Word

Video (14:22): The Rosa Bonheur Case is a documentary web-series co-directed by Carole Cassier and Anna Polonyi about the French artist Rosa Bonheur and contemporary queer culture (2023). The part 3 of a 4 part series looks the big French retrospective exhibition of Rosa Bonheur organised to celebrate the 200 year of her birth. And the co-diretors discover that lesbienne is still an unsayable word in the French art world.

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Retrospective exhibitionRosa Bonheur (1822-1899) at Musée d’Orsay, France in 2022.