Category Archives: Networking
Willy Michel | photobooth portraits
Look! It’s Maria Casarès! Smiling!
Circles: Charles Henri Ford
His influence and relationships ranged from the Surrealists and the interwar expat community in Paris through to the Beats and the Factory, connections which he carried right into the 21st century.
Circles: Charles Henri Ford
His influence and relationships ranged from the Surrealists and the interwar expat community in Paris through to the Beats and the Factory, connections which he carried right into the 21st century.
Lady Ottoline Morrell | photographic portraits
Her photographs, pasted into albums and never intended for a wide audience, nonetheless bear eloquent witness to a life lived in fine company
Lady Ottoline Morrell | photographic portraits
Her photographs, pasted into albums and never intended for a wide audience, nonetheless bear eloquent witness to a life lived in fine company
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Dress-down Friday: Harry Graf Kessler
“He attached great importance to dressing well, considering his friend Richard Dehmel’s predilection for gaudy ties to be something of a moral failing.”
Dress-down Friday: Harry Graf Kessler
“He attached great importance to dressing well, considering his friend Richard Dehmel’s predilection for gaudy ties to be something of a moral failing.”
Circles: Erika and Klaus Mann
Just an everyday tale of boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy has affair with other boy whose sister is having an affair with his wife, said affair being the subject of a thinly-veiled play by the other boy in which all four protagonists perform. Shall we begin?
Circles: Erika and Klaus Mann
Just an everyday tale of boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy has affair with other boy whose sister is having an affair with his wife, said affair being the subject of a thinly-veiled play by the other boy in which all four protagonists perform. Shall we begin?
Wyndham Lewis | portrait studies
These drawings and lithographs are smaller-scale studies of (mostly) British between-the-wars luminaries.
Wyndham Lewis | portrait studies
These drawings and lithographs are smaller-scale studies of (mostly) British between-the-wars luminaries.
Circles: Fanny zu Reventlow
The “Cosmic Countess” serves as a fairly arbitrary mid-point around which to gather some of the key figures who made the Bavarian capital one of Europe’s most exciting, progressive cities at the beginning of the 20th century.
Circles: Fanny zu Reventlow
The “Cosmic Countess” serves as a fairly arbitrary mid-point around which to gather some of the key figures who made the Bavarian capital one of Europe’s most exciting, progressive cities at the beginning of the 20th century.
Munich
We’ve talked about enough obscure, unfairly forgotten people here, but with pre-World War One Schwabing a whole milieu is largely unexamined, in the English-speaking world at least.
Munich
We’ve talked about enough obscure, unfairly forgotten people here, but with pre-World War One Schwabing a whole milieu is largely unexamined, in the English-speaking world at least.
Dress-down Friday: Charles Henri Ford
In Op Art stripes, in black tie alongside Factory mainstay Gerard Malanga, resting serenely on his lover Pavel Tchelitchew or entertaining a gentleman caller wearing rather less than he, Ford is never less than elegant.
Dress-down Friday: Charles Henri Ford
In Op Art stripes, in black tie alongside Factory mainstay Gerard Malanga, resting serenely on his lover Pavel Tchelitchew or entertaining a gentleman caller wearing rather less than he, Ford is never less than elegant.
The con artist formerly known as Prince
…being the further adventures of Harry Domela, the “sham prince” of Weimar Germany.
The con artist formerly known as Prince
…being the further adventures of Harry Domela, the “sham prince” of Weimar Germany.
Pages: The Books of the Beast
This is a 1987 miscellany of pieces stretching back as much as twenty years prior. The title piece concerns the published works of Aleister Crowley, a figure of fascination for the author ever since he was disciplined at school for ordering The Great Beast.
Pages: The Books of the Beast
This is a 1987 miscellany of pieces stretching back as much as twenty years prior. The title piece concerns the published works of Aleister Crowley, a figure of fascination for the author ever since he was disciplined at school for ordering The Great Beast.
Circles: Ludwig II/Sissi
The Austrian empress and the Bavarian king were cousins and might have been in-laws as well if Ludwig hadn’t broken off his engagement with Sissi’s sister Sophie.
Circles: Ludwig II/Sissi
The Austrian empress and the Bavarian king were cousins and might have been in-laws as well if Ludwig hadn’t broken off his engagement with Sissi’s sister Sophie.
Dress-down Friday: Étienne de Beaumont (and guests)
This is a largely context-free gawp at Beaumont’s famous balls and the guests who loved them, a celebration of fancy dress and just plain dressin’ fancy…
Dress-down Friday: Étienne de Beaumont (and guests)
This is a largely context-free gawp at Beaumont’s famous balls and the guests who loved them, a celebration of fancy dress and just plain dressin’ fancy…
Circles: H.D./Bryher
When you’re mapping the relations of H.D. and Bryher, complication is a given. Their relationship lasted from 1918 to H.D.’s death in 1961 but as the diagram indicates, this was a far from exclusive arrangement.
Circles: H.D./Bryher
When you’re mapping the relations of H.D. and Bryher, complication is a given. Their relationship lasted from 1918 to H.D.’s death in 1961 but as the diagram indicates, this was a far from exclusive arrangement.
Dress-down Friday: Janet Flanner (repost)
For non-fiction writers, I can think of few better models to aspire to than Janet Flanner. She crafted prose of the rarest clarity, elegance, insight and wit, aided by a faint air of detachment which allowed her to pin-point her subjects with piercing accuracy.
Dress-down Friday: Janet Flanner (repost)
For non-fiction writers, I can think of few better models to aspire to than Janet Flanner. She crafted prose of the rarest clarity, elegance, insight and wit, aided by a faint air of detachment which allowed her to pin-point her subjects with piercing accuracy.
Benevolent deity (repost)
Rolfe became the archetype of a semi-forgotten literary character, stuffed, labelled and musty in the glass cases of the antiquarian, lauded by a small but fervent group of admirers. It is no coincidence that his three major biographers to date have been bibliophiles.
Benevolent deity (repost)
Rolfe became the archetype of a semi-forgotten literary character, stuffed, labelled and musty in the glass cases of the antiquarian, lauded by a small but fervent group of admirers. It is no coincidence that his three major biographers to date have been bibliophiles.
Rex Luna (repost)
Both Ludwig and Sissi took the abstractions of Romanticism and not only made them reality but practised them at the level of an extreme sport. In so doing they inspired the Decadent writers who furthered the Romantics’ cult of self.
Rex Luna (repost)
Both Ludwig and Sissi took the abstractions of Romanticism and not only made them reality but practised them at the level of an extreme sport. In so doing they inspired the Decadent writers who furthered the Romantics’ cult of self.
A medley of extemporanea (repost)
Stephen Tennant’s narcissism was so pure and open and unabashed that it belongs almost to a different category. “You were very beautiful this evening Stephen,” reads one diary entry.
A medley of extemporanea (repost)
Stephen Tennant’s narcissism was so pure and open and unabashed that it belongs almost to a different category. “You were very beautiful this evening Stephen,” reads one diary entry.
Arthur Cravan: poet, boxer, blogger (repost)
Born under the name Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, changing it to the snappier Arthur Cravan was just the beginning of his quest for attention. Although he left his family name behind, he made much of his connection to his uncle, Oscar Wilde.
Arthur Cravan: poet, boxer, blogger (repost)
Born under the name Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, changing it to the snappier Arthur Cravan was just the beginning of his quest for attention. Although he left his family name behind, he made much of his connection to his uncle, Oscar Wilde.
