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Creative Women of the “Lost Generation”: Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War book cover

1st Edition

Creative Women of the “Lost Generation” Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War

Edited By Kimberly Francis, Margot Irvine Copyright 2024
264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the creative women of the "Lost Generation" including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I. These women’s stories, and the art they created, commissioned, mobilized as propaganda, and performed shed light on the shifting nature of... Read more
Introduction Part 1. Survivors 1. Madame Stichel: A Trailblazing Ballet Choreographer Before and After the War 2. Nadia Boulanger and Louise Cruppi: Triumphs and Tragedy in the Shadow of the First World War 3. Marie Laurencin:  Transformed by war - from Apollinaire and His Friends to the Ballets Russes Part 2. Propagandists 4.Lalla Vandervelde: A Patriotic Belgian Heroine's "Journey out of War" 5. Lena Ashwell: Advocate, Leader, and Theatre Manager 6. Emma Calvé: A Diva’s campagne de propagande Part 3. Witnesses 7. Claire Croiza: Post-war Muse/Performing Mourning 8. Mabel Gardner: Shaped by War, Les Ateliers d'art sacré 9. Clara Longworth de Chambrun: Writing about War Part 4. Pioneers 10. Germaine Dulac, Lotte Reiniger and Esfir Shub: How Well-Bred Girls Turned Film into Women’s Business  11. Anne Dike and Anne Morgan: Recreating France through Public Cinema  Afterword

Biography

Kimberly Francis is Professor of Music and Director of Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of Guelph. She works on French modernist women composers and is the author of Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys (2018); and Nadia Boulanger: Thoughts on Music (with Jeanice Brooks, 2020).

　

Margot Irvine is an Associate Professor of French and European Studies at the University of Guelph. She researches women writers’ relationships to literary and cultural institutions at the turn of the 20th century.

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