#Anne Desmet

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Torre de Babel por Anne Desmet

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

ANNE DESMET

English printmaker Anne Desmet (b. 1964) is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) and the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE), and is only the third wood engraver elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in its entire history. This engraving, Brooklyn Bridge: New Day (2015) pays homage to one of her major influences, British artist Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) and is printed from the original block in 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them, printed in 2020 by Patrick Randle’s Nomad Letterpress at the Whittington Press in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in an edition of 340 copies for the 100th anniversary of the Society of Wood Engravers. Of her wood engravings, Desmet writes:

Many of my engravings are in evolving series to suggest time, change, metamorphosis and evolution. My Brooklyn Bridge (2015) series of seven prints charts nights and days of snowy weather I experienced in New York in 2014. The bridge's complex engineering structure and viewing angle with a vanishing-point perspective reflect my appreciation of Wadsworth's emphatic compositions. . . . I offer . . . Brooklyn Bridge: New Day . . . in homage to Wadsworth. Wordsworth described 'gradually being able to evolve something of printmaking . . . which in my opinion is very suitable for an expression of form and structure' . . . . I too find print techniques admirably well-suited to express 'form and structure' and, in particular, to architectural themes . . . which have preoccupied me these last three decades.

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Anne Desmet, Landmarks (1996-99)

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If you’re in London or planing to travel to London, I highly recommend dropping by the Guildhall Art Gallery to see Anne Desmet’s exhibit Kaleidoscope London. Anne Desmet is a master artist and craftswoman who breathes new life into London’s notorious old buildings by deconstructing and reorganizing them into non-repetitive patterns through the metaphorical kaleidoscope. Her work is simply breathtaking, to put it in plain words. The exhibition ends in 12 Jan. 2025, so hurry up!

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An anonymous individual asked @awildwickedslip for recommendations of literary criticism on the gothic, and she directed them to me, so I thought it was time I make a rec list on the topic.

I'm keep this to more general analyses, but of course have a lot of recommendations for more works on more specific texts (especially but not limited to Dracula).

I'm also including some things that are more properly about amatory or epistolary fiction, because I think an understanding of those genres will serve you well in contemplating the gothic.

Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony

Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves

Christy Desmet and Anne Williams (eds), Shakespearean Gothic

Kate Ferguson Ellis, The Contested Castle

David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Devendra P. Varma, The Gothic Flame

Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman

Roland Barthes, Sade, Fourier, Loyola

Elizabeth Cook, Epistolary Bodies

Jacqueline Howard, Readng Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach

Toni Bowers, Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance

Peter Cryle, The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France

Peter Cryle, Geometry in the Budoir: Configurations of French Erotic Narrative

Jalal Toufic, Vampire: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film

Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature

Marianne Noble, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature

Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth Century Literature and the Invention of the Uncanny

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Christy Desmet and Anne Williams, “Remembering Ophelia: Ellen Terry and the Shakespearizing of Dracula”, in Shakespearean Gothic (2009)

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2022 reading list >:)

fiction:

charlotte brontë, jane eyre

n.k. jemisin, the stone sky

victor hugo, les misérables

susanna clarke, piranesi

james baldwin, giovanni's room

tamsyn muir, gideon the ninth

tamsyn muir, harrow the ninth

emily brontë, wuthering heights

ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness

oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray

isaac fellman, dead collections

joan lindsay, picnic at hanging rock

shirley jackson, dark tales

gretchen felker-martin, manhunt

herman melville, moby dick

octavia butler, parable of the sower

shola von reinhold, lote

larissa lai, the tiger flu

alison rumfitt, tell me i'm worthless

julia armfield, our wives under the sea

shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house

miguel de cervantes, don quixote

toni morrison, the bluest eye

isaac babel, odessa stories

alexandre dumas, the count of monte cristo

daphne du maurier, rebecca

clark ashton smith, the dark eidolon and other fantasies

rivers solomon, the deep

akwaeke emezi, freshwater

e.m. forster, a room with a view

vladimir nabokov, lolita

ayse papatya bucak, the trojan war museum and other stories

sheridan le fanu, carmilla

e.m. forster, maurice

tamsyn muir, nona the ninth

vladimir nabokov, pale fire

shirley jackson, we have always lived in the castle

jorge luis borges, fictions

henry james, the turn of the screw

tamsyn muir, undercover

ling ma, severance

orhan pamuk, the museum of innocence

shirley jackson, hangsaman

nonfiction:

vijay prashad, no free left: the futures of indian communism

eduardo galeano, open veins of latin america

hakim adi, pan-africanism: a history

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

a rainbow thread: an anthology of queer jewish texts ed. noam sienna

kwame nkrumah, africa must unite

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

norm finkelstein, the holocaust industry

robin wall kimmerer, braiding sweetgrass

vladimir lenin, the state and revolution

saidiya hartman, wayward lives, beautiful experiments

john aberth, from the brink of the apocalypse

erik butler, metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film

amin maalouf, the crusades through arab eyes

anandi ramamurthy, black star: britain's asian youth movements

christopher chitty, sexual hegemony

shakespearean gothic, ed. christy desmet and anne williams

cervantes' don quixote: a casebook, ed. roberto gonzález echevarria

edward said, culture and imperialism

emily hobson, lavender and red: liberation and solidarity in the gay and lesbian left

audre lorde, zami: a new spelling of my name

ghassan kanafani, on zionist literature

afsaneh najmabadi, women with moustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity

jamie berrout, essays against publishing

beverley bryan, stella dadzie, suzanne scafe, heart of the race: black women's lives in britain

jamaica kincaid, a small place

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian and scientific

poetry:

trish salah, lyric sexology

melissa range, scriptorium

wendy trevino, cruel fiction

june jordan, selected poems

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Anne Desmet was born in Liverpool, UK in 1964. She gained a BA and MA at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking at Central School of Art and Design, London. She has taught wood engraving at the Royal Academy schools, the British Museum and Middlesex University. In 2011 Anne was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and is only the third wood engraver ever elected to the RA in its entire history.

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Handmade Prints Pt 1

1. Glue and collage prints

Whilst experimenting with the process of stencil-less screenprinting, I wanted to develop the concept of press-less printing further by applying it to different printmaking techniques when I discovered this book in the library. Handmade prints by Anne Desmet and Jim anderson includes numerous techniques from body prints to ceramic printing. The one which interested me was glue prints and collagraphs. I never tried this method of printing before and as I had the necessary materials at home and the process did not require a printing press, I think it would be an interesting experimentation.

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Jens van 't Wout en Schulting pakken Europese titels op 1500 meter

Zaterdag zijn Jens van t Wout en Suzanne Schulting Europees kampioen op de 1500 meter geworden bij de EK shorttrack in de Poolse stad Gdansk. Dit is al de elfde gouden medaille op een EK en de vierde op rij op de 1500 meter voor Schulting. Voor Van ’t Wout is het zijn eerste gouden medaille op een internationaal titeltoernooi. In de slotmeters Van ’t Wou leek op de tweede plek af te stevenen achter Stijn Desmet, maar in de slotmeters wist hij het toch te winnen en zette hij zijn schaats net wat eerder over de lijn dan de Belg. Het brons ging naar Friso Emons. Na 7 ronden Ook voor Schulting was het Desmet die haar nog enigszins bedreigde, maar dan Hanne Desmet. Hoewel de Belgische nog wel dichtbij Schulting kwam, moest ze zich toch gewonnen geven en tevreden zijn met zilver. Schulting gaf haar koppositie, die ze na 7 ronden veroverde, niet meer af daarna. Het brons ging naar de Duitse Anne Seidel. Foto: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Read the full article

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Was the COVID Pandemic a 'Needed Crisis' (VIDEO)

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Moon over Babel. Anne Desmet (b. Liverpool, 1964). Wood engraving & solarplate collaged on paper under convex glass • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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Scene through Wood: One Hundred Years of Wood Engraving

Our current Scene Through Wood exhibition celebrates the centenary of the Society of Wood Engravers, founded in London in March of 1920.⁠ ⁠ Wood engraving may be the only art form with English origins, beginning in the late 18th century with Thomas Bewick. Wood engraving involves incising the polished end-grain surface of a block of hard wood, using sharp steel tools, before inking and printing it. Wood engravings are notable for astonishingly fine detail and astounding tonal range.⁠ ⁠ This FREE exhibition shows the diversity of wood engraved prints in the last 100 years, with works from our collections, complimented by loans from important private collections. ⁠ ⁠ This engraving is by British artist Anne Desmet RA, who is the curator of this exhibition. Part of a series featuring Brooklyn Bridge, it is called New Day and was made in 2015. See the full work, as well as the others in this series, in our Scene Through Wood exhibition in Gallery 8.⁠ ⁠ Please note that this exhibition is FREE, but booking is essential for General Admission to the Museum due to our new safety measures.⁠

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hello my friend! currently rereading dracula, as you know, and wondered if you have any recs for where to start with criticism about the novel? 🖤

This question makes me so happy! <3

I am dreadfully out of date on this, but I can certainly give you places to start; these are not all necessarily recommendations for criticism I like (there's precious little of that), but more introductions to classic criticism in the field.

The classics

The Norton Critical Edition of Dracula (edited by Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal), alongside the Cambridge Companion to Dracula, are both good introductions which collect representative examples of some of the most popular scholarly strains of thought on the novel. When someone asks me to recommend an edition of Dracula to start with, I always suggest the Norton.

Leonard Wolf (who was not Virginia Woolf's husband, but who was one of Anne Rice's college professors) was one of the most important voices in the critical reevaluation of Dracula which started in the 1970's. I often disagree with him (so much so that I once wrote a fic about how much I disagree with him), but his annotated edition of Dracula was my first. His important works are A Dream of Dracula and Dracula: A Connoisseur's Guide. He (along with Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally) was an important early proponent of the "Dracula is Vlad Tepes" theory, which was hotly opposed by...

Elizabeth Miller, ornery grand dame of Dracula criticism. She is extremely invested in being the most reasonable and the least prone to flights of fancy of all the critics, which means she does often say useful things, but she's also a little boring. She's best known for Dracula: Sense and Nonsense, but it's more a litany of complaints than actually analysis. Her books in general have useful primary source stuff.

Once you get into analysis of Dracula reception and adaptions, then I can with a full heart recommend David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, full of delightful trivia, which was truly Skal's strength.

Recommendations I more stand by:

Donald Glover's Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction is one of the very few works of Dracula criticism that I thought actually dealt in any kind of thoughtful way with the racial politics of the book.

Christy Desmet's essay on Ophelia, Ellen Terry, and Dracula, collected in Shakespearean Gothic, was excellent and I still think about it; the whole collection is very much worth reading.

Loved Ann-Louise Kibbie's Transfusion: Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination, which isn't all about Dracula but obviously deals substantially with it.

As a teenager I had a lot of fun reading the uploaded issues of The Journal of Dracula Studies and sometimes fantasized about submitting something to them while concealing my age/lack of higher education to see what happened (I never did). I remember feeling very vindicated by Katharina Mewald's "The Emancipation of Mina?" but don't know how it would hold up now. I haven't kept up with the most recent issues (perhaps I will start!) but at a glance there seem to be some interesting things.

ETA forgot about Allison Case's Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Novel! Good Mina material, comparing her with Marian in Woman in White.

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Art on a Ukulele

Meet the artists participating in ART ON A UKULELE

Anne Desmet RA is an established artist who specializes in wood engravings, linocuts and mixed media collages. She has had three major museum retrospectives to date, received over 30 international awards, and her work is in museum collections and publications worldwide.

Her subject matter pulls in two directions: one is essentially topographical, yet subject to metamorphoses; the other is concerned with intuitive architectural fantasies, urban myths and histories of urban destruction and regeneration. She aims to suggest the sense of timelessness and solidity that buildings can convey, as well as their impermanence and vulnerability.

(Image - Babel Vesuvius, www.annedesmet.com/gallery.htm)

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Revenant, Issue 4: Gothic Feminisms. Edited by Ruth Heholt, guest editors: Frances Kamm and Tamar Jeffers McDonald, March 2019. Info and free dowload: revenantjournal.com.

Revenant is a peer reviewed e-journal dedicated to the study of the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird in any form and in any period. Committed to the scholarly, academic and creative exploration of the supernatural in its multiple, variable and fantastic forms this inter-disciplinary journal encourages discussion about the supernatural or the weird in literature, history, folklore, philosophy, science, religion, sociology and all aspects of popular culture. All areas of discussion are welcome and we invite for example discussions of classic Victorian ghost stories, articles about Shakespeare’s ghosts, standing stones, architecture, film, television, games or new media. Revenant promotes new writing on the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird and we are looking to publish ghost stories, tales of the extraordinary, poems and nature writing. Encouraging a cross-theoretical approach the super-natural may also be explored in relation to gender, sexuality, spirituality, post-colonialism, Marxism or eco-criticism. Revenant emphasises that the ‘natural’ is part of the super-natural and continues a long tradition of both serious and imaginative investigation.

Articles INTRODUCTION: GOTHIC AND HORROR HEROINISM IN THE AGE OF POSTFEMINISM – Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University WITCHES, ‘BITCHES’ OR FEMINIST TRAILBLAZERS? THE WITCH IN FOLK HORROR CINEMA – Chloé Germaine Buckley, Manchester Metropolitan University ‘UNSETTLING THE MEN’: THE REPRESENTATION OF TRANSGRESSIVE FEMALE DESIRE IN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (LANCE COMFORT, 1948) – Paul Mazey, University of Bristol A ‘FASCINATING CONUNDRUM OF A MOVIE’: GOTHIC, HORROR AND CRIMSON PEAK (2015) – Frances A. Kamm

Reviews WOMEN’S COLONIAL GOTHIC WRITING, 1850-1930: HAUNTED EMPIRE. MELISSA EDMUNDSON – Abigail Boucher, Aston University SHAKESPEAREAN GOTHIC. CHRISTY DESMET AND ANNE WILLIAMS (EDS.) – Katia Bowers, University of British Columbia THE GOTHIC NOVEL AND THE STAGE: ROMANTIC APPROPRIATIONS. FRANCESCA SAGGINI – Kathleen Hudson, Anne Arundel Community College WEREWOLVES, WOLVES AND THE GOTHIC. ROBERT MCKAY AND JOHN MILLER (EDITORS) – Kelly Jones, University of Lincoln DECADENT DAUGHTERS AND MONSTROUS MOTHERS. REBECCA MUNFORD – Joellen Masters, Boston University BRAM STOKER AND THE GOTHIC: FORMATIONS TO TRANSFORMATIONS. CATHERINE WYNNE (EDITOR) – Emma Somogyi SOMETHING IN THE BLOOD: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRAM STOKER, THE MAN WHO WROTE DRACULA. DAVID J. SKAL – Murray Leeder, University of Calgary