Full Description
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
Table of 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-Efimova 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
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