Impressions from Paris : women creatives in interwar years France / edited by Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blum-Reid, Sylvie, editor.

Series:

Curating and interpreting culture.

Curating and interpreting culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Women artists.

Women authors--History--20th century.

Women authors.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Art and Science Inc., [2024]

Summary:

'Impressions from Paris' studies the contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris during the Interwar Years, from the 1920s to 1940. The "Roaring Twenties" constituted years of experimentation and freedom to test new techniques and lifestyles at a time affected by serious political changes leading to World War II. Their trajectories have left traces that can be mapped out, studied, and addressed today, a hundred years later. The volume revisits their experiences through various lenses that include art history, gender, fashion, literary analysis, psychology, philosophy, as well as film and food. The volume revisits the artistic, literary, and journalistic contributions of women worldwide, including France, as they flocked to Paris from the 1920s to 1940. The overall principle lies in the inclusion of female painters, visual artists, and writers from diverse international and national backgrounds. Scholars who participate in the volume explore the possibilities presented in a modern literary and artistic history while building on previous scholarship. Two seminal books and a documentary film inspire this project: Shari Benstock's 'Women of the Left Bank. Paris 1900-1940' (Texas UP 1986) and Andrea Weiss's 'Paris was a woman. Portraits from the Left Bank' (HarperSanFrancisco 1995), which in turn produced an eponymous film (Greta Schiller/Andrea Weiss 1996). These works highlight the community of women artists, editors and writers during the interwar years in Paris. There is scholarship in the area, although most of it is scattered in single monographs, crossing various genres, and various languages, from (recent) graphic novels, to fiction, biographical studies, cultural histories as well as scholarly artistic and literary studies."-- Vernnon Press.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781648898112

1648898114

OCLC:

1409029682