Beschreibung:
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).
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.
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