Josephine Baker in Art and Life
Title | Josephine Baker in Art and Life PDF eBook |
Author | Bennetta Jules-Rosette |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | African American entertainers |
ISBN | 0252074122 |
Beyond biography: a legendary performer's legacy of symbolism
Josephine
Title | Josephine PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hruby Powell |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 107 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1452129711 |
Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Jazz Age Josephine
Title | Jazz Age Josephine PDF eBook |
Author | Jonah Winter |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2012-01-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442447109 |
A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats! Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude that made her famous. She even had a pet leopard in Paris! From bestselling children’s biographer Jonah Winter and two-time Caldecott Honoree Marjorie Priceman comes a story of a woman the stage could barely contain. Rising from a poor, segregated upbringing, Josephine Baker was able to break through racial barriers with her own sense of flair and astonishing dance abilities. She was a pillar of steel with a heart of gold—all wrapped up in feathers, sequins, and an infectious rhythm.
Josephine
Title | Josephine PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Claude Baker |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | African American entertainers |
ISBN | 0815411723 |
This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
Fighting for Life
Title | Fighting for Life PDF eBook |
Author | S. Josephine Baker |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1590177061 |
An “engaging and . . . thought-provoking” memoir of battling public health crises in early 20th-century New York City—from the pioneering female physician and children’s health advocate who ‘caught’ Typhoid Mary (The New York Times) New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children. Sweatshop babies with smallpox and typhus dozed in garment heaps destined for fashionable shops. Desperate mothers paced the streets to soothe their feverish children and white mourning cloths hung from every building. A third of the children living there died before their fifth birthday. By 1911, the child death rate had fallen sharply and The New York Times hailed the city as the healthiest on earth. In this witty and highly personal autobiography, public health crusader Dr. S. Josephine Baker explains how this transformation was achieved. By the time she retired in 1923, Baker was famous worldwide for saving the lives of 90,000 children. The programs she developed, many still in use today, have saved the lives of millions more. She fought for women’s suffrage, toured Russia in the 1930s, and captured “Typhoid” Mary Mallon, twice. She was also an astute observer of her times, and Fighting for Life is one of the most honest, compassionate memoirs of American medicine ever written.
Josephine Baker
Title | Josephine Baker PDF eBook |
Author | Jose-Luis Bocquet |
Publisher | SelfMadeHero |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-05-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781910593295 |
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time in the French Resistance, Baker devoted herself to the struggle against racial segregation, publicly battling the humiliations she had for so long suffered personally. She led by example, and over the course of the 1950s adopted twelve orphans of different ethnic backgrounds: a veritable Rainbow Tribe. A victim of racism throughout her life, Josephine Baker would sing of love and liberty until the day she died.
Second Skin
Title | Second Skin PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Anlin Cheng |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Arts and society |
ISBN | 0197748384 |
"What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a Primitivist given, Cheng argues that Baker's skin was central to debates about and desire for "pure surface" that crystalized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Taking the reader across the Atlantic - through real stages and imagined houses; banana plantations and ocean lines; metallic bodies and radiant cities-this study tracks the ardent and protean conversa-tion between the making of a Modernist style and the staging of a new black visuality. In this account, Baker and the Modernists known to have adored and objectified her in fact share a common dream: the fantasy of remaking and wearing the skin of the other"--