Main entry:

Gellai, Szilvia, author.

Title & Author:

Glass scenographies : notes on spaces of one's own / Szilvia Gellai ; with a response by Sina Brückner-Amin.

Publication:

Weimar : M BOOKS, 2023.

Description:

135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm

Series:

CCSA topics
Architectures of order

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Editorial -- Glass scenographies : notes on spaces of one's own. Obscure lives, transparent boundaries ; Evelyn Word Leigh's glass house ; Body and climate : technique for a delicate creature ; Onstage : mastering the art of living in a glass house ; On the morality of transparency : education, desire, and self-discipline ; Under the dome : from cult to experiment ; Female heads at the cutting edge of surrealism ; Anaïs Nin's glass houses and doppelganger ; The metamorphoses of H.D.'s jellyfish experience ; Sylvia Plath's poetic of X-ray architectures ; Poets, temples, and the leopards -- Response. No way home : or, perpetual care for architectural residues.

Summary:

In the first half of the 20th century, when architecture and literature dreamed of transparency, glass was the material these dreams were made of. However, the historiography of both fields usually focuses on a few canonical works by male authors to tell the story of this shared fascination. Departing from this imbalance, this essay takes the opportunity to explore the glass culture of modernity through the lens of female projects whose stories often take place simultaneously on different continents. While the former silent film actor Evelyn Word Leigh builds a glass house for herself in Nyack, New York, artists and writers based in Europe-- like Claude Cahun, Anaïs Nin, and Hilda 'H.D.' Doolittle--flesh out imaginary glass domes as construction sites of artistic subjectivities. Whether homes or domes, these creative women used glass environments to question and renegotiate their assigned places in western societies, challenging the boundaries of female agency.

ISBN:

9783944425269
394442526X

Subject:

Leigh, Evelyn Word, 1892-1974 Homes and haunts.
Glass construction.
Glass in art.
Glass in literature.
Metaphor in art.
Metaphor in literature.
Women authors.
Construction en verre.
Verre dans l'art.
Verre dans la littérature.
Métaphore dans la littérature.

Added entries:

Brückner-Amin, Sina, contributor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 323569
Call No.: 323569
Copy: 1
Status: Available