Creative Women of the Lost Generation - Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War

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.

List of contents

Introduction
Part 1. Survivors
1. Madame Stichel: A Trailblazing Ballet Choreographer Before and After the War
2. Nadia Boulanger and Louise Cruppi: Triumphs and Tragedy in the Shadow of the First World War
3. Marie Laurencin: Transformed by war - from Apollinaire and His Friends to the Ballets Russes
Part 2. Propagandists
4.Lalla Vandervelde: A Patriotic Belgian Heroine's "Journey out of War"
5. Lena Ashwell: Advocate, Leader, and Theatre Manager
6. Emma Calvé: A Diva's campagne de propagande
Part 3. Witnesses
7. Claire Croiza: Post-war Muse/Performing Mourning
8. Mabel Gardner: Shaped by War, Les Ateliers d'art sacré
9. Clara Longworth de Chambrun: Writing about War
Part 4. Pioneers
10. Germaine Dulac, Lotte Reiniger and Esfir Shub: How Well-Bred Girls Turned Film into Women's Business
11. Anne Dike and Anne Morgan: Recreating France through Public Cinema
Afterword

About the author

Kimberly Francis is Professor of Music and Director of Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of Guelph. She works on French modernist women composers and is the author of Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys (2018); and Nadia Boulanger: Thoughts on Music (with Jeanice Brooks, 2020).
Margot Irvine is an Associate Professor of French and European Studies at the University of Guelph. She researches women writers' relationships to literary and cultural institutions at the turn of the 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly Irvine Francis
• Assisted by: Kimberly Francis (Editor), Margot Irvine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032387369
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238736-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Cultural Studies, European History, The arts: general issues, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Historiography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, History and Archaeology, The arts: general topics