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Tag: Decorating Dissidence

Chapter 3: The Art of Translating a Life

5th October 202013th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her third chapter of the series, Elodie Rose Barnes walks the streets of Paris trying to uncover fragments of Djuna Barnes’ relationship with Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and her attempt to write a biography of the Dada artist’s life.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Berlin, Decorating Dissidence, Djuna Barnes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Francis Picabia, Life in Languages, Marcel Duchamp, Modernism, modernist avant garde, New York, Paris, Queer Relationships, Queer Studies, The Baroness, Translation

Postcards in Isolation 21: Mina Loy, Househunting, c.1950

17th August 202019th August 2020  Jade French

Jade French muses on the idea of ‘home’ and the relationships that create one, when looking at Mina Loy’s assemblage, Househunting, c.1950.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: assemblage, Decorating Dissidence, H. D., Househunting, Jade French, Mina Loy, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts

The Dinner Party Reloaded 1: The Artists

19th July 20201st September 2020  Susanna Crossman

In the first of her self-conceived series, The Dinner Party Reloaded, a virtual dinner party with selected artists and writers, Susanna Crossman meets Chiara Ambrosio, Lottie Whalen and Jemima Yong to discuss their creative projects, the looseness of time in lockdown, contact and intimacy in our increasingly digital age and the joys of chickpea stew.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, InterviewsTagged: Chiara Ambrosio, Covid-19, Decorating Dissidence, Film, Jemima Yong, Lockdown Living, Lottie Whalen, Pandemic, Photography, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party Reloaded, Women in the Arts

Postcards in Isolation 9: Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926

21st June 202021st June 2020  Lottie Whalen

In Otto Dix’s Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926, Lottie Whalen sees both an insouciant New Woman and Dix’s embodiment of a dangerously dissolute era. Recalling a recent encounter with the painting in Paris, she reflects on the freedoms we stand to lose in the time of Covid-19.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Covid-19, Decorating Dissidence, Lockdown Living, Lottie Whalen, Otto Dix, Paris, Pompidou, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Sylvia von Harden
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