Modernism, Lesbianism, Paris, and Transit Points Between
thegavoice.comThere are many definitions of Modernism, but for the moment we can think of Modernism as an artistic and social movement that reacted to the constraints of the old: backward looking, holding onto tight class and artistic structures and concrete gender roles, spawned and enforced in particular by English and American strict heteropatriarchal culture.
The new culture embraced freedoms that sought the liberation of the arts and people’s lives, especially sexual norms. Especially for women.
Today, Modernism’s heroes are lionized, outsized figures — well, men — such as Picasso, Ezra Pound, Henri Matisse, and James Joyce.
Important figures all, and all with Parisian lives and connections during the years from the turn of the 20th Century to World War II.
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