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Women in the arts in the Belle Epoque : essays on influential artists, writers and performers /

"New essays explore the role played by women practitioners in the arts during the period audio/film recording and broadcasting became a reality, exploring the careers and creative lives of women involved in composition through oratory to fine art and film directing, revealing women's true...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fryer, Paul, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.