Judith Mackrell Boeken

From the bestselling author of The Unfinished Palazzo, the untold history of six groundbreaking women who fought to become front-line correspondents during World War II

“A breathtaking social portrait, peeling the glitter from privileged lives even as it fleshes out the spectacle they created.” —The Washington Post Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Veniers waned during construction and the project was abandoned. Empty, unfinished, and decaying, the building was considered an eyesore until the early twentieth century, when it attracted and inspired three women at key moments in their lives: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim. Their extraordinary, acclaimed story is now available in paperback. Luisa Casati turned her home into an aesthete’s fantasy, where she hosted parties as extravagant and decadent as Renaissance court operas, spending small fortunes on her own costumes in her quest to become a “living work of art” and muse. Doris Castlerosse strove to make her mark in London and Venice during the glamorous interwar years, hosting film stars and royalty at glittering parties. In the postwar years, Peggy Guggenheim turned the Palazzo into a model of modernist simplicity that served as a home for her exquisite collection of modern art. Each vivid life story is accompanied by previously unseen materials from family archives, weaving an intricate history of these legendary art world eccentrics.

The story of the splendidly unpredictable Russian dancer who ruffled the feathers of the Bloomsbury set and became the wife of John Maynard Keynes

This book looks at the history, characteristics and practitioners of New Dance and is the first book to cover all aspects of it.

For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large ambitions of their lives.In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the Charleston and wearing fashionable clothes. They made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age, pursuing experience in ways that their mothers could never have imagined, seeking to define what it was to be young and a woman in an age where the smashing of old certainties had thrown the world wide open.Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and sometimes tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.

This new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Dance provides the information necessary for dance fans to navigate the diverse dance forms in the 21st century, with new coverage of dance forms that have grown in prominence over the last 10 years, many new biographical entries, and a greater emphasis on the international dance scene.

The story of Venice's Unfinished Palazzo-- told through the lives of three of its most unconventional, passionate, and fascinating residents: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim

In Artists, Siblings, Visionaries, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell turns her attention to British brother and sister artists Gwen and Augustus John. In many ways they were polar opposites. Augustus was the larger of the two; vivid, volatile and promiscuous, he was a hero among romantics and bohemians, celebrated as one of the great British talents of his generation. As a woman, Gwen's place in the art world was much smaller, and her private way of working and reserved nature meant it was only long after her death that her tremendous gifts were fully acknowledged. But her temperament was as turbulent as her brother's. She formed passionate attachments to men and woman, including a long affair with the sculptor Rodin. And there were other ways in which the two Johns were remarkably alike, as Mackrell vividly reveals. The result is a powerful portrait of two prodigiously talented artists and visionaries, whose experiments with form and colour created some of the most memorable work of the early twentieth century.

Heute ist das Guggenheim-Museum eine der touristischen Hauptattraktionen Venedigs. Dieser reich bebilderte Band erzählt erstmals die spannende Geschichte des Palazzos. Die Millionenerbin und Mode-Ikone Luisa Casati, die Salonnière Doris Castlerosse und die Kunstsammlerin Peggy Guggenheim machten ihn zum glamourösen und berüchtigten Treffpunkt der internationalen Künstlerszene und der High Society: Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter und Yoko Ono u. v. a. gingen hier ein und aus. Das Porträt einer singulären Stadt, die Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Hauses und dreier atemberaubender Frauen

Die 1920er Jahre versprechen einen Aufbruch in ein neues Leben. In den USA machen die Flapper von sich reden: junge Frauen, die kurze Röcke und kurzes Haar tragen und sich selbstbewusst über gesellschaftliche Konventionen hinwegsetzen. Sie verkehren in Jazzbars und Nachtclubs, trinken hochprozentigen Alkohol, rauchen, tanzen Charleston, Shimmy und Black Bottom und leben ihre Sexualität aus. Doch es geht diesen Frauen um mehr als nur Provokation: Es ist vor allem der Kampf um Selbstverwirklichung und Unabhängigkeit in einer männerdominierten Welt. Mit dem Flapper ist der Typus einer neuen „gefährlichen“ Frau geboren! Die britische Autorin und Kritikerin Judith Mackrell erzählt in diesem reich bebilderten und spannend geschriebenen Buch von sechs Frauen, die zu Ikonen der »Roaring Twenties« wurden: der Tänzerin und Sängerin Josephine Baker, der Schriftstellerin und Tänzerin Zelda Fitzgerald, den Schauspielerinnen Tallulah Bankhead und Lady Diana Cooper, der Publizistin und Verlegerin Nancy Cunard und der Malerin Tamara de Lempicka.