Gabriele Munter, Breakfast of the Birds (1934). For more images (her work continues the tradition described by Deborah Cherry) Dear friends and readers, Soon winter will become a mythic time and pictures of snow and frost will have to be explained: today our temperatures in the DC area reached 80 fahrenheit and we are in [...]
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A summer’s day in March: at the Women’s Museum
Posted in modern art, museums, opera, painting, Seasonal, visual art, women's art, tagged arts, NationalMuseumofWomeninArts, vacation, West End cinema on March 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Foremother Poet: Amy Clampitt (1920-94) amid the thrushes
Posted in 18th century poetry, 19th century poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, painting, Plays, Poetry, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Amy Clampitt, birds, thrush poetry on January 19, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Amy Clampitt A Thrush singing in Dorsetshire Dear friends and readers, This foremother poet blog on Amy Clampitt, is done differently from most. I was so taken by her “The Hermit Thrush” after reading a review in Women’s Review of Books of a newly published book of her poems, that I wrote a brief foremother [...]
“‘What are men to rocks and mountains?’” The content of Ann Radcliffe’s Landscapes
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, gothic, listserve life, Margaret Oliphant, novels of sensibility, painting, Poetry, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Ann Radcliffe, Beatrice Battaglia, book illustrations, heroine's text on December 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840), Man and Woman [?] Gazing at the Moon (1819) My friendly (and kind) readers, Will I hope remember last week I told of how I had come to decide to fulfill a long-held desire, to write a paper where I would have to gaze at, study, write about the landscapes of [...]
An historically faithful (!) Don Giovanni on HD at the movies
Posted in 18th century, Costume drama, film studies, later 17th century, Met HDOperas, mozart, Music, Musical, opera, painting, Theater, Uncategorized, tagged HD opera on October 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Don Giovanni brooding (Mariusz Kwiecien) I must say that I have seen nobody on stage who has been a more interesting Character than that compound of Cruelty & Lust — Jane Austen, on a pantomime-burlesque, Don Juan, or the Libertine Destroyed, adapted from Thomas Shadwell’s Libertine, 15 Sept 1813 Dear friends and readers, I am [...]
Capriccio: The pleasures of art as standing in for hope
Posted in 18th century, 20th century culture, Austen, comic poetry, Music, opera, painting, Theater, tom stoppard, women's art, tagged Moliere, renee fleming, richard strauss, the Met on April 26, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Renee Fleming as the Countess bowing before the audience after the opera was over: we see a wide portion of the whole set from on high Dear friends and readers, Before too much time goes by, I want to praise and recommend going to see the Met’s production of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio. The Admiral, Izzy [...]
Picasso at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, & little of exclusionary cities goes a long way
Posted in 20th century culture, museums, painting, visual art, tagged Jane Jacobs, Randall Jerrell on March 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Picasso, Massacre in Korea, 1951 Dear friends and readers, The Admiral and I tried another day trip yesterday. We went to Richmond, Virginia, to see the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and its special traveling exhibit of Picasso, and walk about to see something of the city. It was more than a little disappointing. Not [...]
Canaletto’s world on a brisk sunny day; Or, the Venetian art marketplace
Posted in 18th century, painting, Travel Writing, visual art, tagged Guardi on March 14, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Canaletto, San Christoforo, San Michele and Marano from the Fuondamenta Nuove, about 1722 Dear friends and readers, Jim, Izzy and I set forth on the first of our planned day trips on a brisk sunny day — around 10 this morning. We went into DC, walked about, visited the National Gallery, two special exhibits and [...]
Jenny Uglow’s humane Hogarth; travel writing as art biography/history
Posted in 18th century, biography, painting, political novels/films, Travel Writing, Uncategorized, tagged henry fielding, Jame Quinn, jenny uglow, Tom Jones on July 2, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Jenny Uglow in her study, recent photo William Hogarth (1697-1764) Shrimp Girl Dear friends and readers, About two weeks ago now I finished reading Jenny Uglow’s marvelous biography, Hogarth: A life and a world. The pleasures of this book come from Uglow’s genuine gift for travel writing, and analysis of art, her thorough knowledge of [...]
Lucie Cousturier (1870/8-1925), artist, memoirist, a woman just outside the loops of respectability
Posted in feminism, French culture, painting, women's art on August 31, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Lucie Cousturier, Self Portrait (1919) “It is very early in the morning … The address provided by a young Ouolof who had been my pupil in France, led me to the extremity of the craftsmen’s precinct … The yard of sizable dimension that I entered contained only one tree, slightly bigger than our orange tree, [...]
