Coochie Dancer - from the 'Circus' series

 

Robert L. Cormack

  1935 - PRESENT (biography)

2006  

color monotype from plexiglass matrix 

19 5/8 x 15 9/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right; signed in the matrix, lower center 

1 of 2  

pencil titled, dated, and editioned 

 

heavy cream wove 

published 

artist 

RLC125 

$500.00 

Robert Cormack depicts a burlesque dancer against the backdrop of a county fair, complete with rides and a circus tent. "Coochie" refers to "Hoochie Coochie", a catch-all term given to performers who immitate the traditional Egyptian dance known as Raqs Baladi, known in the West as a belly dance. Cormack uses bold colors and shapes to evoke the glitz of a fair at night, with the scantily clad dancer and axe- and sword-wielding performers in the background lending an air of seediness to the overall effect.