Glass scenographies : notes on spaces of one's own
- 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.
Author: | Szilvia GellaiORCiDGND, Sina Brückner-AminGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-743982 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.74398 |
ISBN: | 978–3–944425–38–2 |
ISBN: | 978–3–944425–26–9 |
Series (Serial Number): | AO - Reihe "Architekturen des Ordnens" (2) |
CCSA Topics (6) | |
Publisher: | M BOOKS |
Place of publication: | Weimar |
Document Type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2024/02/29 |
Date of first Publication: | 2024/02/29 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Contributing Corporation: | Center for Critical Studies in Architecture CCSA; AO - Architekturen des Ordnens |
Release Date: | 2024/02/29 |
Tag: | architecture and literature; female agency; female authorship; glass architecture; modern architecture; transparency |
Page Number: | 150 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 51607749X |
Institutes: | Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften / Kulturwissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 72 Architektur / 720 Architektur |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |