Creative Women of the “Lost Generation”

<p>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’s 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><p>With the combined knowledge and expertise from different contributors chapters in this book consider how modernist practices continued their development in women’s 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><p>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’s experiences of resistance mourning and reinvention in the shadow of the Great War.</p>