Women in the arts in the Belle Epoque : essays on influential artists, writers and performers / edited by Paul Fryer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fryer, Paul, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--History--19th century.

Women artists.

Women and literature--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of new essays explores the role played by women practitioners in the arts during the period often referred to as the Belle Epoque, a turn of the century period in which the modern media (audio and film recording, broadcasting, etc.) began to become a reality. Exploring the careers and creative lives of both the famous (Sarah Bernhardt) and the less so (Pauline Townsend) across a remarkable range of artistic activity from composition through oratory to fine art and film directing, these essays attempt to reveal, in some cases for the first time, women's true impact on the arts at the turn of the 19th century.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: But Where Were the Women? (Paul Fryer); Sarah Bernhardt: Artist and Mythologist (Debra Charlton); Pauline Sherwood Townsend: American Proponent of Expression and Pageantry (Nena Couch); Lillie Langtry: From ""Professional Beauty"" to International Icon (Rebecca A. Umland); Fashioning Herself a Lady: Anna Cora Mowatt's ""Bold Experiment"" (Adrienne Macki Braconi); Ida Rubinstein, Fixer Fatale (Edward Forman); Loïe Fuller's ""Orgy of Color"": Modernity, Eternity and the Folies-Bergère (Sebastian Trainor)

Sculpture in Motion: Nina Simonovich-Emova and the Petrushka Theatre (Dassia N. Posner)Keeping the House: Augusta Gregory and the National Theatre of Ireland (Bernadette Sweeney); Caldwell, Donnelly and Young: Women Writing in the American Musical Theatre (Ellen Marie Peck); Armande de Polignac: An Aristocratic Compositrice in Fin-de-siècle Paris (Laura Hamer); The Most Artistic Lady Artist on Earth: Vesta Victoria (Carol A. Morley); The Graphic Power of Käthe Kollwitz (Rina Arya); About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-70494-3

1-4766-0102-X

OCLC:

815281346