The first International Djuna Barnes Conference started in London today, with two more days of Djunapalooza to come. Barnes’s writing output was paralleled and sometimes accompanied by her highly accomplished drawings; the last five images here, for example, come from her own volume of verse, The Book of Repulsive Women, dating from 1915. At times her illustrations ape Beardsley but more often there is an acute, original vision at work.
Further reading
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
Dress-down Friday: Djuna Barnes
Djuna 40/80/120
Circles: H.D./Bryher
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It’s interesting how many writers were also accomplished artists or draftsmen – here I think of Pushkin and also Flannery O’Connor, whose cartoons have just been released in a book. What an amazing woman Djuna was.
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