[Vwoolf] Query Regarding Graphic Biography of Woolf
Ann Campbell
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Mon Jul 8 12:23:52 EDT 2013
This my first foray into posting to the listserve, so I hope I am "doing it right."
A friend recently sent me a slender volume from Paris entitled Virginia Woolf. It appears to be a graphic biography of Woolf, written (in French) by Michele Gazier and illustrated by Bernard Ciccolini. Some poking around online reveals that this work has been translated into Spanish but seemingly not into English.
I am wondering if anyone in the Woolf community is aware of this book and whether anyone is working on translating it or using it in their scholarship .
Any responses on or off list (to woolfwave at sbcglobal.net) would be greatly appreciated,
Most sincerely,
Ann Gibaldi Campbell
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:19:33 -0400
From: Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides
To: Melanie White <melanie.white at comcast.net>
Cc: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
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I am grateful for this on-going discussion, and am especially in agreement
with the comments made by Kimberly Coates, Kristin Czarnecki, Jean
Mallinson, Brenda Helt,Tonya Krouse, and Jeanette Smyth, early on. The
spread made me feel manipulated, violated, and disgusted as a woman, a
Woolf scholar, a feminist, a survivor, a human being, and, if I may be so
bold, a fashionista (although one might find that point to be esp in
contention, as it is true I am far away from my undergraduate years, and
yet continue to wear sweatpants to the library!), and the input here on the
listserv really helped me to
navigate the initial jolt from Vice.
I often feel the same way when I view much of photojournalism (not that I'm
characterizing the spread as such, I'm not), especially images of violence
and war. I was particularly interested in Jeanette's comments on genocide
art and snuff porn, and began to think of the ways in which this
conversation might intersect with, say, Lee Miller's Vogue spread, with a
narrative laid upon it, of dead SS, and the pictures of her in Hitler's
bathtub, etc. which I guess in certain photos might be characterized as the
Nazi body in pain being aestheticized, feminized, and eroticized, the
snuffers being snuffed.
It also led me back, thankfully, and not uncommonly, to Woolf's Three
Guineas, where she, with her usual profound eloquence, refuses (notice the
present tense, here) to show the pictures of the dead children from the
Spanish Civil War, but displays instead the photographs of
the patriarchs
in charge of policy---military, religious, legal, and cultural---policy,
whose decisions affect us, our hearts and minds (with a little shout out to
the obscene Vietnam war), in very real terms.
An artist (and an entrepreneur, for that matter) would do well to study
that text, for I feel that he or she would discover a much more provocative
and profitable way not only to make art, but to sell some incredibly sexy
clothes, as well.
I see the spread as a disappointment (I, too, loathe the proliferation of
"artist statements" online that claim or attempt to direct my perception
and apprehension of the piece) and as a colossal, yet run-of-the-mill
failure of the human imagination.
Jean
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White <melanie.white at comcast.net>wrote:
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> Someone said this has been taken down now. ****
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:02:41 +0000
From: Elisa Sparks <SPARKS at clemson.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides
To: Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com>
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Am I the only one who was additionally annoyed by innaccuracy of Woolf dressed in Victorian white, high collar, as if she was just another avatar of emily Dickinson?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 25, 2013, at 8:19 AM, "Jean Mills" <millsj7 at gmail.com<mailto:millsj7 at gmail.com>> wrote:
I am grateful for this on-going discussion, and am especially in agreement with the comments made by Kimberly Coates, Kristin Czarnecki, Jean Mallinson, Brenda Helt,Tonya Krouse, and Jeanette Smyth, early on. The spread made me feel manipulated, violated, and disgusted as a woman, a Woolf scholar, a feminist, a survivor, a human being, and, if I may be so bold, a fashionista (although one might find that point to be esp in contention, as it is true I am far away from my undergraduate years, and yet continue to wear sweatpants to the library!), and the input here on the listserv really helped me to navigate the initial jolt from Vice.
I often feel the same way when I view much of photojournalism (not that I'm characterizing the spread as such, I'm not), especially
images of violence and war. I was particularly interested in Jeanette's comments on genocide art and snuff porn, and began to think of the ways in which this conversation might intersect with, say, Lee Miller's Vogue spread, with a narrative laid upon it, of dead SS, and the pictures of her in Hitler's bathtub, etc. which I guess in certain photos might be characterized as the Nazi body in pain being aestheticized, feminized, and eroticized, the snuffers being snuffed.
It also led me back, thankfully, and not uncommonly, to Woolf's Three Guineas, where she, with her usual profound eloquence, refuses (notice the present tense, here) to show the pictures of the dead children from the Spanish Civil War, but displays instead the photographs of the patriarchs in charge of policy---military, religious, legal, and cultural---policy, whose decisions affect us, our hearts and minds (with a little shout out to the obscene Vietnam war), in very real
terms.
An artist (and an entrepreneur, for that matter) would do well to study that text, for I feel that he or she would discover a much more provocative and profitable way not only to make art, but to sell some incredibly sexy clothes, as well.
I see the spread as a disappointment (I, too, loathe the proliferation of "artist statements" online that claim or attempt to direct my perception and apprehension of the piece) and as a colossal, yet run-of-the-mill failure of the human imagination.
Jean
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White <melanie.white at comcast.net<mailto:melanie.white at comcast.net>> wrote:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617
Someone said this has been taken down now.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:28:43 -0600
From: Jeannette Smyth <jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides
To: Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com>, <VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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Thank you.
One of the classic photojournalism depictions of a child in war (if not genocide) is Nick Ut's Pulitzer-Prize-winning shot of Kim Phuc, as a child, running naked and burned from a napalm attack on her Vietnamese village.
I read an entire PhD. thesis somebody had written about this most extraordinary photograph, the gist of which was that its perfect composition made it art. And thence, iconic. And thence, Christian, because Kim Phuc "was" "posed" in a crucifixion "pose". That's kind of when I started erping (technical critical theory term).
As a journalist, I'd have to
say I'd publish the Nick Ut photograph in a heartbeat, today, its perfect composition not withstanding. Journalistically, it is worth 200 million words, and tell the complete story within its unposed frame. Removal any single figure from the photo deletes information. It is an awesome achievement, considering, as an old photog boyfriend once told me, "You know you're a pro when you can reload running backwards down the street with your ass on fire." The photog's courage obviously is a subtheme for journalists, if not PhD. candidates. Recall the discussion over the photograph of the falling man, who lept from the top of one of the twin towers on 9/11 and was photographed hurtling to his death.
Sontag famously proposes that photography abstracts and short-circuits empathy. I would say, in the cases of photographs of violence, it flattens it -- one of the most intriguing processes of actually making icons, in the sense of religious images to
worship.
In any case, thank you for your thoughtful comments.
Jeannette Smyth
On Jun 25, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Jean Mills wrote:
> I am grateful for this on-going discussion, and am especially in agreement with the comments made by Kimberly Coates, Kristin Czarnecki, Jean Mallinson, Brenda Helt,Tonya Krouse, and Jeanette Smyth, early on. The spread made me feel manipulated, violated, and disgusted as a woman, a Woolf scholar, a feminist, a survivor, a human being, and, if I may be so bold, a fashionista (although one might find that point to be esp in contention, as it is true I am far away from my undergraduate years, and yet continue to wear sweatpants to the library!), and the input here on the listserv really helped me to navigate the initial jolt from Vice.
>
> I often feel the same way when I view much of photojournalism (not that I'm characterizing the spread as such, I'm not), especially images of
violence and war. I was particularly interested in Jeanette's comments on genocide art and snuff porn, and began to think of the ways in which this conversation might intersect with, say, Lee Miller's Vogue spread, with a narrative laid upon it, of dead SS, and the pictures of her in Hitler's bathtub, etc. which I guess in certain photos might be characterized as the Nazi body in pain being aestheticized, feminized, and eroticized, the snuffers being snuffed.
>
> It also led me back, thankfully, and not uncommonly, to Woolf's Three Guineas, where she, with her usual profound eloquence, refuses (notice the present tense, here) to show the pictures of the dead children from the Spanish Civil War, but displays instead the photographs of the patriarchs in charge of policy---military, religious, legal, and cultural---policy, whose decisions affect us, our hearts and minds (with a little shout out to the obscene Vietnam war), in very real
terms.
>
> An artist (and an entrepreneur, for that matter) would do well to study that text, for I feel that he or she would discover a much more provocative and profitable way not only to make art, but to sell some incredibly sexy clothes, as well.
>
> I see the spread as a disappointment (I, too, loathe the proliferation of "artist statements" online that claim or attempt to direct my perception and apprehension of the piece) and as a colossal, yet run-of-the-mill failure of the human imagination.
>
> Jean
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White <melanie.white at comcast.net> wrote:
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617
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>
>
> Someone said this has been taken down now.
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Subject: NYTimes.com: Actors Today Don’t Just Read for the Part.
Reading IS the Part.
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To clarify--the message to the NYTimes article should have been this question.
Cheers--
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