Posts Tagged: Djuna Barnes
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.
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
Djuna Barnes | drawings
Djuna Barnes’ writing output was paralleled and sometimes accompanied by her highly accomplished drawings.
Djuna Barnes | drawings
Djuna Barnes’ writing output was paralleled and sometimes accompanied by her highly accomplished drawings.
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.
I am such miserable thing
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s letters make pretty difficult reading in every sense (deciphering the handwriting, parsing her eccentric syntax and then encountering the desolation of her life).
I am such miserable thing
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s letters make pretty difficult reading in every sense (deciphering the handwriting, parsing her eccentric syntax and then encountering the desolation of her life).
Djuna 40/80/120
“Ten years later, reading Nightwood – that apocalyptic novel! – I recognized you for what you were, the greatest and most impassioned anatomist of sexual infatuation and jealousy since Proust.”
Djuna 40/80/120
“Ten years later, reading Nightwood – that apocalyptic novel! – I recognized you for what you were, the greatest and most impassioned anatomist of sexual infatuation and jealousy since Proust.”
Berenice Abbott | portraits
American photographer Berenice Abbott is currently the subject of a major show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. Abbott was connected to much of that city’s avant garde and expatriate communities in the 1920s and took compelling portraits of her illustrious crowd.
Berenice Abbott | portraits
American photographer Berenice Abbott is currently the subject of a major show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. Abbott was connected to much of that city’s avant garde and expatriate communities in the 1920s and took compelling portraits of her illustrious crowd.
Dress-down Friday: Djuna Barnes
Just one look, that’s all it takes. As with her lover Thelma Wood, one image suffices to convey the élan, the elegance, the self-possession of American writer Djuna Barnes. For reasons not entirely apparent to me, Djuna is having a busy 2012.
Dress-down Friday: Djuna Barnes
Just one look, that’s all it takes. As with her lover Thelma Wood, one image suffices to convey the élan, the elegance, the self-possession of American writer Djuna Barnes. For reasons not entirely apparent to me, Djuna is having a busy 2012.
Dress-down Friday: Thelma Wood
With an unseasonably mild November in Berlin I’m thinking of busting out an artsy 1920s lesbian look as my cycling outfit of choice, mostly inspired by this picture.
Dress-down Friday: Thelma Wood
With an unseasonably mild November in Berlin I’m thinking of busting out an artsy 1920s lesbian look as my cycling outfit of choice, mostly inspired by this picture.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.
Salon queen
Natalie Barney would become the 20th century’s greatest saloniste. Visitors to her Friday afternoon meetings included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Salon queen
Natalie Barney would become the 20th century’s greatest saloniste. Visitors to her Friday afternoon meetings included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Rainer Maria Rilke.
