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Fantasies and Erotics: Discovering Studio Manassé by Elodie Rose Barnes

13th July 202115th July 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

A secondhand book found in Paris takes Elodie Rose Barnes on a curious foray into the fantastical Studio Manassé, a portraiture business that specialised in glamorously surreal and, at times, problematic photographs of women.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, BooksTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Berlin, Budapest, burlesque, Elodie Rose Barnes, erotic images, Monika Faber, Olga Wlassics, Paris, Studio Manassé, Wlassics

Translation is a place of resting, of being in common

15th December 202015th December 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

After an Erasmus exchange in Paris, artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie discovered that translation is about the space between languages and voices; a space that affords us new connections, ideas and friendships.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Erasmus, France, French, friendship, Ground Provisions, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Language, Languages, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Life in Languages, Paris, Photography, Sealy Thompson, Stefano Harney, Translation

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 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

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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