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Creative Women of the “Lost Generation”

Author : Kimberly Francis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000924645
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Creative Women of the “Lost Generation” written by Kimberly Francis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 gender norms during this period. With the combined knowledge and expertise from different contributors, chapters in this book consider how modernist practices continued their development in women’s hands during the war through networks forged by and for women artists in the absence of their male colleagues. These chapters also reflect on how, in many cases, the dissolution of these structures after the November 1918 armistice had detrimental consequences for their professional trajectories. This book challenges the place creative women currently hold in the historical record while also clarifying how these artists and impresarios contributed to wartime and post-war culture. This collection of essays will be of great value to scholars interested in social and gender history of the twentieth century, as well as historians of the arts through offering nuanced understanding of the essential work of female creative professionals, highlighting artistic women’s experiences of resistance, mourning, and reinvention in the shadow of the Great War.

Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation

Author : Riley Noel Fitch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393302318
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation written by Riley Noel Fitch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott

Creative Women of the "lost Generation"

Author : Margot Irvine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032387369
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Creative Women of the "lost Generation" written by Margot Irvine and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 gender norms during this period. With the combined knowledge and expertise from different contributors, chapters in this book consider how modernist practices continued their development in women's hands during the war through networks forged by and for women artists in the absence of their male colleagues. These chapters also reflect on how, in many cases, the dissolution of these structures after the November 1918 armistice had detrimental consequences for their professional trajectories. This book challenges the place creative women currently hold in the historical record while also clarifying how these artists and impresarios contributed to wartime and post-war culture. This collection of essays will be of great value to scholars interested in social and gender history of the twentieth century, as well as historians of the arts through offering nuanced understanding of the essential work of female creative professionals, highlighting artistic women's experiences of resistance, mourning, and reinvention in the shadow of the Great War"--

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Author : Brenda Knight
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353309463
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution written by Brenda Knight and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

Author : Gail McMeekin
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573241410
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women written by Gail McMeekin and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing how women can break free of societal and psychological barriers, the author uses the examples of Shakti Gawain, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Cathleen Rountree, Chris Madden and other "creatives" to show how to overcome blocks to creativity. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Everybody Was So Young

Author : Amanda Vaill
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544268946
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Everybody Was So Young written by Amanda Vaill and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: “A marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era (The New York Times Book Review). Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy—witty, urbane, and elusive—was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, the Murphys also counted among their friends John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Fernand Léger, Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter, and a host of others. Far more than mere patrons, they were kindred spirits whose sustaining friendship released creative energy. Yet none of the artists who used the Murphys for their models fully captured the real story of their lives: their Edith Wharton childhoods, their unexpected youthful romance, their ten-year secret courtship, their complex and enduring marriage—and the tragedy that struck them, when the world they had created seemed most perfect. Drawing on a wealth of family diaries, photographs, letters and other papers, as well as on archival research and interviews on two continents, this “brilliantly rendered biography” documents the pivotal role of the Murphys in the story of the Lost Generation (Los Angeles Times). “Often considered minor Lost Generation celebrities, the Murphys were in fact much more than legendary party givers. Vaill’s compelling biography unveils their role in the European avant-garde movement of the 1920s; Gerald was a serious modernist painter. But Vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time.” —Library Journal

Found Meals of the Lost Generation

Author : Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756756260
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Found Meals of the Lost Generation written by Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes you through an edible time machine back to the moveable feastÓ that Hemingway called 1920s Paris. Transform your living room into Gertrude Stein's famous tea salon, share a cold supper with James Joyce & Sylvia Beach, dine with Cole Porter at the famous cabaret Bricktop's or with Kiki & Man Ray in their intimate flat. Have grilled lobster & champagne with Josephine Baker, bouillabaisse with Zelda Fitzgerald, & The Jimmie Special from Jimmie the Barman. The book will help you recreate these & many other occasions as it traces the sumptuous feats & daring adventures of the coterie of artists & writers who visited Paris during this exhilarating decade of creativity.

The Remainder

Author : Alia Trabucco Zerán
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895588
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Remainder written by Alia Trabucco Zerán and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile’s dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela’s childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents’ violent militant past. The body of Paloma’s mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a pisco-fueled journey up the cordillera as they confront the pain that stretches across generations.

Flappers

Author : Judith Mackrell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230771688
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Flappers written by Judith Mackrell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large ambitions of their lives. In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the Charleston and wearing fashionable clothes. They made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age, pursuing experience in ways that their mothers could never have imagined, seeking to define what it was to be young and a woman in an age where the smashing of old certainties had thrown the world wide open. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and sometimes tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.

The Lost Girls of Paris

Author : Pam Jenoff
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460398769
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Girls of Paris written by Pam Jenoff and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! Three women. One daring mission. 1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal. In this riveting story inspired by true events, Pam Jenoff weaves a tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances. Don’t miss Pam Jenoff’s new novel, Code Name Sapphire, a riveting tale of bravery and resistance during World War II. Read these other sweeping epics from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff: The Woman with the Blue Star The Orphan’s Tale The Ambassador’s Daughter The Diplomat’s Wife The Kommandant's Girl The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach The Winter Guest

Bricktop's Paris

Author : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143845502X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Bricktop's Paris written by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. Bricktop's Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered. Following this nonfiction account, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, which brings the players from the world of nonfiction into a Paris whose elegance masks a thriving underworld.

Shutting Out the Sun

Author : Michael Zielenziger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307490904
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Shutting Out the Sun written by Michael Zielenziger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society, and the growing numbers of “parasite singles,” the name given to single women who refuse to leave home, marry, or bear children. In Shutting Out the Sun, Michael Zielenziger argues that Japan’s rigid, tradition-steeped society, its aversion to change, and its distrust of individuality and the expression of self are stifling economic revival, political reform, and social evolution. Giving a human face to the country’s malaise, Zielenziger explains how these constraints have driven intelligent, creative young men to become modern-day hermits. At the same time, young women, better educated than their mothers and earning high salaries, are rejecting the traditional path to marriage and motherhood, preferring to spend their money on luxury goods and travel. Smart, unconventional, and politically controversial, Shutting Out the Sun is a bold explanation of Japan’s stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world.

The Lost Generation

Author : Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184007760
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Generation written by Nidhi Dugar Kundalia and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Haridwar pandit who maintains genealogical records of families for centuries; a professional mourner who has mastered the art of fake tears; a letter writer who overlooks the lies that a sex worker makes him write to her family back home. These are remnants of an India that still exist in its old streets and neighbourhoods, an unshakeable sense of belonging to a time that was the everyday life of our ancestors. In The Lost Generation, Nidhi Dugar Kundalia narrates the unforgettable stories of eleven professionals—from the hauntingly beautiful rudaalis to the bizarre tasks of a street dentist—uncovering the romance, tragedy and old-world charm of India’s ageing bylanes and its incredible living history.

Family Life

Author : Elisabeth Luard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831074
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Family Life written by Elisabeth Luard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary and moving memoir of an unconventional, unforgettable family.

The Girls in the Picture

Author : Melanie Benjamin
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 110188682X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Girls in the Picture written by Melanie Benjamin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a “rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies” (USA Today)—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford “Full of Old Hollywood glamour and true details about the pair’s historic careers . . . a captivating ode to a legendary bond.”—Real Simple NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone’s lips these days is “flickers”—the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you’ll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all. In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium. She also makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have earned her the title “America’s Sweetheart.” The two ambitious young women hit it off instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution. But their ambitions are challenged by both the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender—and their astronomical success could come at a price. As Mary, the world’s highest paid and most beloved actress, struggles to live her life under the spotlight, she also wonders if it is possible to find love, even with the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks. Frances, too, longs to share her life with someone. As in any good Hollywood story, dramas will play out, personalities will clash, and even the deepest friendships might be shattered. With cameos from such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Rudolph Valentino, and Lillian Gish, The Girls in the Picture is, at its heart, a story of friendship and forgiveness. Melanie Benjamin brilliantly captures the dawn of a glittering new era—its myths and icons, its possibilities and potential, and its seduction and heartbreak. “A boffo production . . . Inspiration is a rare and unexpected gift in a book filled with the fluff of Hollywood, but Benjamin provides it with The Girls in the Picture.”—NPR “Profoundly resonant, The Girls in the Picture is at its core, an empowering and fascinating tale of sisterhood.”—Bryce Dallas Howard

James Jones

Author : Tony J. Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442272414
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book James Jones written by Tony J. Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Jones played many roles, including short story writer, social critic, and war novelist. His most famous work, From Here to Eternity (1951), spent 20 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller’s list, won the National Book Award, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, and was named one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. Despite this and the success of his other novels, Some Came Running (1957) and The Thin Red Line (1962), Jones is widely forgotten today. In James Jones: The Limits of Eternity, literary scholar Tony J. Williams examines the significance of Jones’s work not only for its nuance and daring subject matter but also for its widespread popularity. In his assessment of Jones’s catalog, Williams reveals an incisive novelist who offered groundbreaking interpretations of masculinity, sexuality, gender, and identity. Williams contends that Jones should be recognized as far more than just a popular war novelist, but also as a humanitarian and literary pioneer, particularly in probing gender and queer issues. A quintessentially American novelist, Jones was never afraid to look openly at the flaws of his society, examine how it could adversely affect individual victims, and tacitly suggest possible alternatives. He recognized the presence of gays and lesbians in American culture during an overtly repressive time, which makes his work relevant to many areas of contemporary criticism. Demonstrating his significant contribution to contemporary American literature, James Jones: The Limits of Eternity will be of interest to scholars of war narratives, gender studies, and literary studies.

A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890-1940

Author : David L. Minter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467490
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890-1940 written by David L. Minter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interweaves a wide selection of the novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a series of cultural events ranging from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to the "Southern Renaissance" of the 1930s.