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Joris-Karl Huysmans called Edgar Degas's Little Dancer of Fourteen Years "the first truly modern attempt at sculpture I know." What made it truly modern, and what did "modern" mean to a French writer or artist in 1880?

by /u/LorenzoApophis in /r/AskHistorians

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