Brilliant exiles : American women in Paris, 1900-1939 /
"For the American women who made Paris their home during the early decades of the twentieth century, the city offered unique opportunities for personal emancipation and professional innovation. While living as expatriates in the international center of all things avant-garde, these women escape...
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Washington, DC : New Haven :
National Portrait Gallery ; In association with Yale University Press,
[2024]
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| ISBN: | 0300273584 9780300273588 |
Table of Contents:
- Donors
- Director's Foreword / Kim Sajet
- Transatlantic Transformations : Portraying American Women in Paris, 1900-1939 / Robyn Asleson
- Catalogue / Robyn Asleson
- Modern Art and Modern Women
- Dancer of the Future
- The Stein Effect
- Stars of Montmartre Nightlife
- Literary Modernism
- Harlem's Renaissance in Paris
- An Academy of Women
- Refashioning Modern Women
- A Genealogy of Expatriation : When Paris Was a Black Woman / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
- The Found Generation : Creating Spaces of Emancipation in Early Twentieth-Century Paris / Tirza True Latimer
- Subverting Desire : Black Women and Transatlantic Expressive Culture in Paris / Zakiya R. Adair
- Capturing Ancient Dance in Modern France / Samuel N. Dorf
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Illustration Credits.