Patti Smith´s polaroids of Virginia Woolf´s bed, writing desk and gravestone
Tag: modernism
‘One can only say that those who experience it [the aesthetic emotion] feel it to have a peculiar quality of “reality” which makes it a matter of infinite importance in their lives. Any attempt I might make to explain this would probably land me in the depths of mysticism. On the edge of that gulf I stop’.
Roger Fry, “Retrospect”, in Vision and Design, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1981 (1920), 211
Blanchot, from “Literature and The Right to Death” (full text here)
Anne Carson, from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent” by Anne Carson, A Public Space, Issue 7 / 2008 (full text here)
Susan Sontag from “The Aesthetics of Silence”
Rembrandt, Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, 1659
Francis Bacon, Self Portrait, 1973.
Anne Carson, from Nox
Louise Gluck from Proofs & Theories
Anne Carson, from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent” by Anne Carson, A Public Space, Issue 7 / 2008 (full text here)
AUGUSTUS VINCENT TACK (1870–1949)
Evening, between 1934 and 1936
Virginia Woolf
from The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Milton Avery, Untitled – 1937, watercolor. 22” x 30”
francis bacon
Lucien Freud, Pregnant Girl (Bernardine Freud at 18 years old), 1960-61
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, corrected page proofs, 13 January-12 February 1927.
Angel was Dead: what then remained? You may say that what remained was a simple and common object – a young woman in a bedroom with an inkpot. In other words, now that she had rid herself of falsehood, that young woman had only to be herself. Ah but what was herself? I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know…These were two of the adventures of my professional life. The first – killing the Angel in the House – I think I solved. She died. But the second, telling the truth about my experiences as a body, I do not think I solved. I doubt that any woman has solved it yet.
Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women”
Little Bristling Soul 