[Vwoolf] Fwd: "Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury To Charleston"

Sun Nov 10 08:43:58 EST 2024


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> From: Elaine Pigeon <pigeonel at videotron.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury To Charleston"
> Date: November 10, 2024 at 7:48:59 AM EST
> To: "Neverow, Vara S." <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
> 
> I believe it’s a statue of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of infinite compassion. The gender of Avalokiteshvara is indeterminate, sometimes male but later considered female. Seems appropriate, don’t you think?
> 
> Elaine Pigeon, PhD
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> Meet Avalokiteshvara, Buddhism's Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
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>> On Nov 9, 2024, at 10:40 PM, Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Harish,
>> 
>> The webpage I inserted below has a much better photograph of the sculpture on the mantel of the fireplace (and also has an amazing number of other photographs of Charleston).
>> 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/charleston__;!!KGKeukY!2k8BX-LKfdlEPimlF2y6C98BsxDJ3O24TQNQlPY89PVPNBsUCU3z8nc9LEkq9ileoxHM5X_oQ77z7PoK4eOT-cGM6g$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/charleston__;!!KGKeukY!wLurNN1jQ6JWKAFfuH2crz7U7ouL2mfcepeG5k8Wf6CqsZFxHh8um6oKuuOycpskE8Rn0LqRzsgDQbtw_TlfNFO_x-hA$>
>>  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/charleston__;!!KGKeukY!wLurNN1jQ6JWKAFfuH2crz7U7ouL2mfcepeG5k8Wf6CqsZFxHh8um6oKuuOycpskE8Rn0LqRzsgDQbtw_TlfNFO_x-hA$>	
>> The interiors of Charleston: the house the Bloomsbury Group turned in to a living work of art <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/charleston__;!!KGKeukY!wLurNN1jQ6JWKAFfuH2crz7U7ouL2mfcepeG5k8Wf6CqsZFxHh8um6oKuuOycpskE8Rn0LqRzsgDQbtw_TlfNFO_x-hA$>
>> Nestled in bucolic Sussex gardens the seventeenth-century exterior belies the riot of imaginative decoration inside; a legacy of its function as artistic residence to the Bloomsbury Group.
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk__;!!KGKeukY!2k8BX-LKfdlEPimlF2y6C98BsxDJ3O24TQNQlPY89PVPNBsUCU3z8nc9LEkq9ileoxHM5X_oQ77z7PoK4eP29nzfQw$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk__;!!KGKeukY!wLurNN1jQ6JWKAFfuH2crz7U7ouL2mfcepeG5k8Wf6CqsZFxHh8um6oKuuOycpskE8Rn0LqRzsgDQbtw_TlfNI-3P4n3$>
>> This article looks like it might be of relevance:
>> Ira Nadel <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.euppublishing.com/author/Nadel*2C*Ira__;JSs!!KGKeukY!wLurNN1jQ6JWKAFfuH2crz7U7ouL2mfcepeG5k8Wf6CqsZFxHh8um6oKuuOycpskE8Rn0LqRzsgDQbtw_TlfNLudQxfH$>
>> "Oriental Bloomsbury"
>> Modernist Cultures, February 2018, vo. 13, No. 1 : pp. 14-32
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2018.0192__;!!KGKeukY!2k8BX-LKfdlEPimlF2y6C98BsxDJ3O24TQNQlPY89PVPNBsUCU3z8nc9LEkq9ileoxHM5X_oQ77z7PoK4eOu7ztB4A$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2018.0192__;!!KGKeukY!wLurNN1jQ6JWKAFfuH2crz7U7ouL2mfcepeG5k8Wf6CqsZFxHh8um6oKuuOycpskE8Rn0LqRzsgDQbtw_TlfNAgfJiln$>
>> The abstract states:
>> The multiple and occasionally contradictory response of Bloomsbury to the Orient is the focus of this essay which also considers the reverse: the Orient's response to Bloomsbury and the promotion of their texts in the East. From Roger Fry to G. L. Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa Bell, the Orient became a source of aesthetic interest and problematized politics. French Orientalism and Proust initially corroborated the experiences of Woolf in Constantinople and Leonard Woolf in Ceylon, soon to be revised by new views of Imperial authority. Yet Bloomsbury and the Orient artistically depended on each other, at one point Fry scolding Bloomsbury and England that ‘we can no longer hide behind the Elgin marbles and refuse to look at the art of China’. And look they did, from attending museum shows to collecting Oriental art and furniture, while adopting Oriental fashions – and, when possible, traveling to China and Japan marked by visits by Bertrand Russell, William Empson, and Harold Acton. The response of individual Bloomsbury writers to the Orient mixes curiosity and jealousy. To her nephew Julian Bell, teaching at Wuhan University, Woolf wrote that ‘you are much to be envied. I wish I had spent three years in China at your age’.
>> 
>> E. M. Forster's A Passage to India might also have some traces of relevance regarding Indian art. 
>> 
>> I hope this response is somewhat helpful. 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Vara
>> 
>> Vara Neverow
>> (she/her/hers)
>> Professor, English Department
>> Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
>> Southern Connecticut State University
>> New Haven, CT 06515
>> 203-392-6717
>> neverowv1 at southernct.edu <mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
>> 
>> I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.  
>> 
>> Recent Publications:
>> Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)
>> 
>> From: Harish Trivedi <harish.trivedi at gmail.com <mailto:harish.trivedi at gmail.com>>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 9, 2024 10:05 PM
>> To: Neverow, Vara S. <neverowv1 at southernct.edu <mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu>>
>> Cc: vwoolf listerve <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>>
>> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury To Charleston"
>>  
>> Thanks for this. 
>> 
>> Could someone please identify the sculpture on the mantelpiece depicting the Buddha/ a Hindu deity?  Do we know who acquired it (Vanessa/Duncan etc.) and in what circumstances? 
>> 
>> Is a better photo of it available somewhere? 
>> 
>> I am especially curious as the Bloomsbury group appears to have had little interest in Indian art— or did they? 
>> 
>> Best wishes. 
>> 
>> Harish Trivedi
>>  
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 at 8:19 PM, Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> "Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury To Charleston," Sotheby's and Charleston's free London exhibition curated by Kim Jones ("Free & Open to the Public from 9 – 26 November"):
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.charleston.org.uk/press/sothebys-and-charleston-unite-for-a-two-part-exhibition-celebrating-the-bloomsbury-group-curated-by-kim-jones/__;!!KGKeukY!2k8BX-LKfdlEPimlF2y6C98BsxDJ3O24TQNQlPY89PVPNBsUCU3z8nc9LEkq9ileoxHM5X_oQ77z7PoK4eM_urgvEg$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.charleston.org.uk/press/sothebys-and-charleston-unite-for-a-two-part-exhibition-celebrating-the-bloomsbury-group-curated-by-kim-jones/__;!!KGKeukY!0wbxDlH59or105RtN1AyADko9WbYWl7fiox6TwlsWkzM8L0DFrtiRpfWT6JX2fURZu0PISDNyNj2OzQ4egtauv0LSCbW$>
>>  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.charleston.org.uk/press/sothebys-and-charleston-unite-for-a-two-part-exhibition-celebrating-the-bloomsbury-group-curated-by-kim-jones/__;!!KGKeukY!0wbxDlH59or105RtN1AyADko9WbYWl7fiox6TwlsWkzM8L0DFrtiRpfWT6JX2fURZu0PISDNyNj2OzQ4egtauv0LSCbW$>	
>> Charleston — Sotheby’s and Charleston Unite for a Two-Part Exhibition Celebrating The Bloomsbury Group, Curated by Kim Jones <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.charleston.org.uk/press/sothebys-and-charleston-unite-for-a-two-part-exhibition-celebrating-the-bloomsbury-group-curated-by-kim-jones/__;!!KGKeukY!0wbxDlH59or105RtN1AyADko9WbYWl7fiox6TwlsWkzM8L0DFrtiRpfWT6JX2fURZu0PISDNyNj2OzQ4egtauv0LSCbW$>
>> The exhibition features rarely-seen works
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.charleston.org.uk__;!!KGKeukY!2k8BX-LKfdlEPimlF2y6C98BsxDJ3O24TQNQlPY89PVPNBsUCU3z8nc9LEkq9ileoxHM5X_oQ77z7PoK4eMdqc3MXQ$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.charleston.org.uk__;!!KGKeukY!0wbxDlH59or105RtN1AyADko9WbYWl7fiox6TwlsWkzM8L0DFrtiRpfWT6JX2fURZu0PISDNyNj2OzQ4egtauuixoY5i$>
>> 
>> 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theweek.com/culture-life/art/vanessa-bell-a-world-of-form-and-colour-an-expansive-exhibition__;!!KGKeukY!2k8BX-LKfdlEPimlF2y6C98BsxDJ3O24TQNQlPY89PVPNBsUCU3z8nc9LEkq9ileoxHM5X_oQ77z7PoK4eM-EWdWhw$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theweek.com/culture-life/art/vanessa-bell-a-world-of-form-and-colour-an-expansive-exhibition__;!!KGKeukY!0wbxDlH59or105RtN1AyADko9WbYWl7fiox6TwlsWkzM8L0DFrtiRpfWT6JX2fURZu0PISDNyNj2OzQ4egtauvIpgTfB$>
>>  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theweek.com/culture-life/art/vanessa-bell-a-world-of-form-and-colour-an-expansive-exhibition__;!!KGKeukY!0wbxDlH59or105RtN1AyADko9WbYWl7fiox6TwlsWkzM8L0DFrtiRpfWT6JX2fURZu0PISDNyNj2OzQ4egtauvIpgTfB$>	
>> Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour – an 'expansive' exhibition <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theweek.com/culture-life/art/vanessa-bell-a-world-of-form-and-colour-an-expansive-exhibition__;!!KGKeukY!0wbxDlH59or105RtN1AyADko9WbYWl7fiox6TwlsWkzM8L0DFrtiRpfWT6JX2fURZu0PISDNyNj2OzQ4egtauvIpgTfB$>
>> The 'sweeping' show features over 140 works from paintings to ceramics
>> theweek.com <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://theweek.com/__;!!KGKeukY!wLurNN1jQ6JWKAFfuH2crz7U7ouL2mfcepeG5k8Wf6CqsZFxHh8um6oKuuOycpskE8Rn0LqRzsgDQbtw_TlfNFPJ7fKo$>
>> 
>> 
>> Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant painted much of Charleston's interiors (Image: Lee Robbins)
>> Works by the Bloomsbury group will go on loan and up for sale at an exhibition hosted by a London auction house.
>> The event at Sotheby’s will celebrate art and literature by the Bloomsbury group, with works for sale alongside loans from the collection at Charleston, near Firle.
>> Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury To Charleston, a private selling and loan exhibition in collaboration with Charleston, will highlight the “indefatigable spirit of the Bloomsbury Group” across paintings, drawings, furniture, ceramics and literature by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf and Henry Lamb.
>> As part of the exhibition, the historic farmhouse will be loaning some of its most significant pieces, many not usually on public view.
>> They include recent acquisitions made as part of Charleston’s 50 for 50 campaign, a hunt for the best Bloomsbury works still in private collections to help mark the forthcoming 50th anniversary.
>> In 2030, Charleston will celebrate 50 years since the charity that saved it was established.
>> The Bloomsbury group was a circle of intellectuals including artists and writers in the 20th century. Charleston, the home and studio of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, became one of the hubs where the group met.
>> The Sotheby's exhibition is free and runs from November 9 to 26.
>> Best,
>> Vara
>> Vara Neverow
>> (she/her/hers)
>> Professor, English Department
>> Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
>> Southern Connecticut State University
>> New Haven, CT 06515
>> 203-392-6717
>> neverowv1 at southernct.edu <mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
>> 
>> I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.  
>> 
>> Recent Publications:
>> Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)
>> 
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