Memories of Bilitis: Marie Laurencin beyond the Cubist Context

Aug. 1, 2002

The lesbian is the heroine of modernism. – Walter Benjamin (90) [1] In scholarly examinations of the period prior to the First World War, Marie Laurencin’s work has been viewed almost exclusively as a footnote to early twentieth-century French modernism, important primarily for its recording of the youthful visages of...