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The contributions of female artists to the development of literary and artistic modernism in early twentieth century France remain poorly understood. It was during this period that a so-called “modern woman” began occupying urban spaces associated with the development of modern art and modernism’s struggles to define subjectivities and sexualities.  Whereas most studies of modernism’s formal innovations and its encouragement of artistic autonomy neglect or omit necessary discussions of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation, the contributors of The Modern Woman Revisited inject these perspectives into the discussion.  Between the two World Wars, Paris served as the setting for unparalleled freedom for expatriate as well as native-born French women, who enjoyed unprecedented access to education and opportunities to participate in public artistic and intellectual life. Many of these women made lasting contributions in art and literature.  Some of the artists discussed include Colette, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia Delaunay, Djuna Barnes, Augusta Savage, and Lee Miller. Inthis book, an internationally recognized roster of art historians, literary critics, and other scholars offers a nuanced portrait of what it meant to be a modern woman during this decisive period of modernism’s development. Individual essays explore the challenges faced by women in the early decades of the twentieth century, as well as the strategies these women deployed to create their art and to build meaningful lives and careers. The introduction underscores the importance of the contributors’ efforts to engender larger questions about modernity, sexuality, race, and class.

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Author:   Whitney Chadwick ,  Tirza True Latimer
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9780813532929

ISBN 10:   0813532922
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 September 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction / WHITNEY CHADWICK AND TIRIA TRUE LATIMER PART ONE Imagining Modernity 1. BECOMING MODERN Gender and Sexual Identity after World War / WHITNEY CHADWICK AND TIRIA TRUE LATIMER 2.GENDER, RACE, AND MISCEGENATION African Americans in Jazz Age Paris / TYLER STOVALL 3. DECONSECRATING MODERNISM Allegories of Regeneration in Brooks and Picasso / BRIDGET ELLIOTT PART TWO Modern Modes 4. ""NEVER ADMIT!"" Colette and the Freedom of Paradox / ISABELLE DE COURTIVRON 5. SAMSON AND DELILAH REVISITED The Politics of Fashion in 1920's France / MARY LOUISE ROBERTS 6. PAINTING THE PERVERSE Tamara de Lempicka and the Modern Woman Artist / PAULA BIRNBAUM 7. SONIA DELAUNAY'S SIMULTANEOUS FASHIONS AND THE MODERN WOMAN / TAG GRONBERG PART THREE New Identities 8. LOOKING LIKE A LESBIAN Portraiture and Sexual Identity in 1920's Paris / TIRZA TRUE LATIMER 9. DJUNA BARNES Looking Like a Lesbian/Poet / CAROLYN ALLEN 10. SINGULAR PLURAL Collaborative Self-Images in Claude Cahun's Aveux non avenus / JENNIFER SHAW 11. ""SOMETHING HIDDEN, SECRET, AND ETERNAL"" Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall, and the Lesbian Image in The Forge / JOE LUCCHESI PART FOUR Embodying the Modern 12. MODERN DANCERS AND AFRICAN AMAZONS Augusta Savage's Sculptures of Women, 1929-1930 / THERESA LEININGER-MILLER 13. LEE MILLER'S TWO BODIES / WHITNEY CHADWICK 14. ""LE NUM��RO BARBETTE"" Photography and the Politics of Embodiment in Interwar Paris / AMY LYFORD APPENDIX: The Napoleonic Civil Code of 1804 Bibliography  Notes on Contributors Index"

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Whitney Chadwick is a professor of art at San Francisco State University and the author of many books, including Woman Artists and the Surrealist Movement. Tirza True Latimer lectures in art history at various San Francisco area institutions.  

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