No Modernism Without Lesbians

A Sunday Times Book of the YearWinner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times.The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer.They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own - forming a community around them in Paris.Each of these four central women interacted with a myriad of others, some of the most influential, most entertaining, most shocking and most brilliant figures of the age. Diana Souhami weaves their stories into those of the four central women to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-War Paris.'One of the best books I've read this year.' James Bridle

Product details

• Authors: Diana Souhami, Souhami Diana
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781786694874
• ISBN: 978-1-78669-487-4
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social & cultural history, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Women, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, Feminism and feminist theory, Biography: arts and entertainment, Non Fiction, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, Lesbian studies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics