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Women in the Arts: Eccentric Essays in Music, Visual Arts and Literature
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Women in the Arts: Eccentric Essays in Music, Visual Arts, and Literature is a multidisciplined celebration of past and present women creators. It marks a new departure in womens studies, for it presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the longneglected area of womens contributions to the various genres of the arts. Because of its unique historical approach, this pioneering collection of essays is useful in the areas of humanities and womens studies as scholarly or pleasure readings. Many firsts are included in this anthology. There are chapters by three prominent awardwinning living composers that discuss the plight of women in this maledominated field and the pioneering contemporary innovations to the discipline of musical composition that women have contributed. Another chapter brings to light pioneering research on the names and musical compositions of the earliest women composers. Another gives historical evidence of the earliest documented womens conservatory and its performers in the United States located in the Moravian Young Ladies Seminary in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The chapter on the MacDowell Colony reveals the history of how Marian MacDowell and her network of womens music clubs helped to build the MacDowell Colony, a haven for artists that has continued through the twentyfirst century. In the visual arts, one essay brings forth visual representations of womens subjugation; another analyzes the photographic innovations and historical work of the woman pioneer, Nellie Ladd; the artistic contributions of two women of color, Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo, are contrasted in a historical perspective; and a fascinating historical analyses of women and tattoos is presented. In the area of literature, the Potters are celebrated for pioneering the first serial handmade magazine in 1904; another writer, discusses how she represents the role of motherhood in her female characters; and arguments are presented of how women poets give voice to spiritual feminism. The thirteen diverse essays present original contributions to the disciplines of music, visual arts, and literature. By bringing forth this collection, it is hoped that there will be greater appreciation for the great diversity and range of women creators and the obstacles that they had to overcome. It is hoped that the essays will provide a historical documentation of the artistic voice of women that have until now been neglected.
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