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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Souhami, Diana.     Subjects     Beach, Sylvia.     Bryher, 1894-1983.     Barney, Natalie Clifford.     Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.     Lesbian artists -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.     Modernism (Art) -- France -- Paris.     Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century     Browse Catalog     by author:      Souhami, Diana.       by title:      No modernism without...       by call number:      709.04 S721n     Search the Web     Souhami, Diana.     Beach, Sylvia.     Bryher, 1894-1983.     Barney, Natalie Clifford.     Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.     Lesbian artists -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.     Modernism (Art) -- France -- Paris.     Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century       MARC Display

No modernism without lesbians / Diana Souhami. by Souhami, Diana. Head of Zeus, 2021. Call #: 709.04 S721n Subjects Beach, Sylvia.   Bryher, 1894-1983.   Barney, Natalie Clifford.   Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.   Lesbian artists -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.   Modernism (Art) -- France -- Paris.   Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century ISBN:  9781786694874 (pbk) 9781786694867 (hc) Edition:  Paperback ed. Description:  456 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographies and index. Summary:  "In the summer of 1945, just after the Nazi occupation, Truman Capote visited Romaine Brooks's abandoned studio in Paris. The portraits there, large and imposing, were of women: Ida Rubinstein, Una Troubridge, Gluck, Elisabeth de Gramont, Renata Borgatti, Bryher. Romaine's lover Natalie Barney said that Paris had been 'the Sapphic Centre of the Western World', and these women defined it. Capote himself called them 'the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes'. This book is about that gallery and celebrates the central role they played in the cultural revolution that was Modernism. Modernism happened in Paris, and these women were Paris. Shocking, free, blatant, they weren't just expats. They'd grouped together to create their own world, far from the restrictions of home. They were talented, often well-off, and lesbian. They answered to no one but themselves. Among them, for example, was Sylvia Beach, the American who set up the legendary Shakespeare & Co in 1919 and published Joyce's Ulysses when nobody else dared to, as well as Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness which was burned in Britain. The shop became the unofficial meeting place of the Modernists. Gertrude Stein, Beach's friend, bought the work of her friends -- Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso, Gauguin -- when they were young and unknown. Hemingway, Scott Fitzerald, Paul Bowles and others gravitated to the shop and to the world around these women. Told in the spirit of Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, or Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, this book is as colourful and exuberant as the women themselves."--Publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 709.04 S721n Adult books Withdrawn Add Copy to MyList

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