Woman as a Work of Art. Journalistic Opinions from the Interwar Epoch
Woman as a Work of Art. Journalistic Opinions from the Interwar Epoch

Summary/Abstract: Among the novelties brought by the interwar years to the Romanian society, there was thebelief that any woman can be beautiful. The problem of lacking natural beauty had becomesomething easy to solve, by using a few cosmetic products, by frequently visiting the beauty centersand by replacing old clothes with some new en vogue ones, according to the latest fashion of theEuropean cities. Those women, who were already beautiful, would have become even more beautiful,if they had followed the beauty secrets, secrets which could be discovered in the columns of thenewspapers and magazines. Some men from that very epoch even stated that some women could beconsidered real works of art. This is exactly what interests us mostly in the current research. Thus, we aimed at analysing what was written in some Romanian interwar newspapers in connection to the idea that woman’s knowledge of being beautiful can be considered a form of art.

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