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Tag: Decadence

Interview with Shola von Reinhold: ‘It felt like Hermia Fabulated herself out of the archive’

1st June 202119th September 2021  Frankie Dytor

To open their new guest editorial, BAROQUE, Frankie Dytor talks to award-winning writer, Shola von Reinhold, about their acclaimed novel, LOTE, the radicalism of ornamentality, writing trans characters and the existence of queer Black artists and figures in the archives.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Abondance Matanda, Amber Jamilla Musser, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Decadence, fin de siècle, Frankie Dytor, Hélène Cox, Jacaranda, Jacaranda 2020, Jacaranda Books, Krista Thompsen, LOTE, queer literature, Queer Studies, rococo, Shola von Reinhold, Stephen Tennant, Susan Sontag

Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain

14th September 202015th September 2020  Christina Makri

The eccentric, grotesque and awe-inspiring legacy of Aubrey Beardsley is celebrated in Tate Britain’s largest exhibition of his drawings in 50 years.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Aestheticism, Art Nouveau, Aubrey Beardsley, Decadence, Edward Burne-Jones, Oscar Wilde, Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Britain, The Yellow Book, Victorian Art, Victorian Literature

Eurydice Among the Shades

29th December 201929th January 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Throughout history Eurydice has been portrayed as a voiceless cypher next to the vocal brilliance of her husband Orpheus. But does the ENO’s 2019 programme of Gluck, Offenbach and Glass alter this? asks our writer Miriam Al Jamil.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, MusicTagged: Albrecht Dürer, Carol Ann Duffy, Decadence, English National Opera, Eurydice, Gluck, H. D., Hilda Doolittle, Jean Cocteau, Night / Shift, Offenbach, Orpheus, Ovid, Paris, Philip Glass, Studio Wayne McGregor, Virgil, Wayne McGregor
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    By Lisa Goodrum
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    By Rachel Ashenden
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