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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. These women\u2019s stories, and the art they created, commissioned, mobilized as propaganda, and performed shed light on the shifting nature of gender norms during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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With the combined knowledge and expertise from different contributors, chapters in this book consider how modernist practices continued their development in women\u2019s hands during the war through networks forged by and for women artists in the absence of their male colleagues. These chapters also reflect on how, in many cases, the dissolution of these structures after the November 1918 armistice had detrimental consequences for their professional trajectories. This book challenges the place creative women currently hold in the historical record while also clarifying how these artists and impresarios contributed to wartime and post-war culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This collection of essays will be of great value to scholars interested in social and gender history of the twentieth century, as well as historians of the arts through offering nuanced understanding of the essential work of female creative professionals, highlighting artistic women\u2019s experiences of resistance, mourning, and reinvention in the shadow of the Great War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n Part 1. Survivors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Madame Stichel: A Trailblazing Ballet Choreographer Before and After the War<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Nadia Boulanger and Louise Cruppi:\u202fTriumphs and Tragedy in the Shadow of the First World War<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Marie Laurencin: \u202fTransformed by war – from Apollinaire and His Friends to the Ballets Russes<\/p>\n\n\n\n Part 2. Propagandists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.Lalla Vandervelde: A Patriotic Belgian Heroine’s “Journey out of War”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Lena Ashwell: Advocate, Leader, and Theatre Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Emma Calv\u00e9: A Diva\u2019s campagne de propagande<\/p>\n\n\n\n