#duncan and lytton

[internatlvelvet]

Bloomsbury group, July 1915: Lady Ottoline Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell

[bazzys]

The Charleston House

Home of the Bloomsbury Group

[k-wame]

JAMES NORTON & ED BIRCH 2015 • Life in Squares • S1·EP2 • dir. Simon Kaijser 

[mywingsareonwheels]

BRIAN BLESSED as Augustus in I, Claudius voice:-

IS THERE ANYONE IN BLOOMSBURY WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH DUNCAN GRANT?!?!!!!

[queerographies]

[Il giardino di Bloombsbury][Mario Fortunato]

Amicizia, Arte e Tempo: Il Romantico Mosaico di Bloomsbury a Charleston Titolo: Il giardino di BloombsburyScritto da: Mario FortunatoEdito da: BompianiAnno: 2024Pagine: 224ISBN: 9788830103191 La sinossi di Il giardino di Bloombsbury di Mario Fortunato Virginia, Nessa, Leonard, Duncan, Quentin. E poi Maynard, Bunny, Carrington, Lytton. Mariti e mogli, amanti e ancora amanti. Ma soprattutto…

[eddy25960]

Charleston, a Sussex farmhouse, was the home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and a country retreat for writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century associated with the Bloomsbury Group - including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey. Duncan Grant decorated the whole house in the same style.

[abwwia]

Lady Ottoline Morrell, full name: Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.

Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge, Lytton and Oliver Strachey, and Frances Marshall (later Partridge); snapshot by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1923

Portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Adolf de Meyer, c. 1912

Her photography

Katherine Mansfield, 1916–17

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages. Via Wikipedia

Jean de Menasce, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Eric Siepmann, 1922

Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot, 1924

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Gallery of the Day (4/8/24) Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1885–1978) Football (1911) Oil on canvas, 227.7 x 197.5 cm. The Tate Gallery, London

Grant was a central figure in the circle of artist and writers known as Bloomsbury, which included Grant's cousin Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Virginia's sister the painter Vanessa Bell and Vanessa's husband the critic Clive Bell. Grant and Vanessa Bell were closely associated in their professional and personal lives for more than fifty years. In 1913 Roger Fry founded the Omega Workshops, of which Grant and Vanessa Bell were directors. The workshops produced furniture, pottery and textiles designed by various young artists including Grant and Bell themselves.

[stillwaterseas]

lytton strachey sending anon hate to duncan grant

it's weird to be attracted to an ugly frog like wtf is even your taste in men

i won't argue with you about whether or not fawful is ugly but it is weird yes, i agree

i have long accepted that i am weird

[dauwdrupje]

My portrait of Lytton Strachey and Duncan Grant, drawn on a piece of driftwood which I found on the beach. Where to start explaining my fascination for Strachey and Grant? Both author Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) - best known for his 'Eminent Victorians' - and his cousin, painter Duncan Grant (1885-1978) were members of the famous Bloomsbury Group. As was the case with most of the Bloomsbury people, they were connected to each other by a diversity of complex emotions - about which I'm currently reading in Michael Holroyd's magnificent Strachey-biography. I don't think I've ever read such a wonderful and absorbing biography before - it literally makes my heart ache. 

[radenthusiastkid-blog]

[internatlvelvet]

Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; (Arthur) Clive Bell,

1922 Vanessa Bell

[rickinmar]

George Mallory in a photo by Duncan Grant. 1912. The greatest mountaineer of the first few decades of the twentieth century. Recently a trove of letters between himself and Lytton Strachey have come to light, with some very homoerotic writing. Mallory, when asked “Why do you want to climb Everest?” famously said “Because, it’s there “

[k-wame]

JAMES NORTON & ED BIRCH  2015 • Life in Squares • S1·EP2 • dir. Simon Kaijser

[thefoxhuntingman]

Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

[meirimerens]

making this post as a reference for dances/gestures/performances/[...] i find relate to Herb Brides' dances In My Mind, as i do not think the soft swaying they do in canon really warrants clothes torn from their chests (but i also know how hard animating characters is, period, so i won't comment on that further.) takes this more as a long Herb Brides Dances Headcanon post (and also as a collection of poses reference...)

Pina Bausch's works, especially her choreography for Rites of Spring (done on a stage covered in dirt).

the dancers have very loose light clothing, so mind the toplessness.

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Damien Jalet's works, especially his works for Les Médusés performance in the Louvre, particularly his "L'Évocation" and "Les Médusées" pieces.

L'Évocation:

it picks up from 2:20 and stays consistently powerful and strong until the end. this is the performance that's the most Herb Brides to me. everything, from the frantic dancing, throwing self on the ground multiple times, the slapping of the chest, the throwing of the hair, the heavy breathing, fits them so, so well to me. this is what i think they do.

Les Médusées (nonsexual nudity in images and video from the costumes):

you might have noticed from the similarities with above, Damien Jalet was the one who choreographied the dances of Suspiria (2018). These dances also fit into the Herb Brides dances of my mind (but since it's a horror movie, I won't put videos as most of them contain spoilers).

last thing from Jalet (for now): his choreography Yama (1:20 and onward)

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Ryan Heffington's choreographic work for the background dancers in Florence + The Machine's "King"

and "Heaven is Here"

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Akram Khan's choreographic work for the background dancers in Florence + The Machine's "Big God"

and for "Giselle" (0:48 and onward)

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Isidora Duncan's body of work and legacy, both as formal inspiration for the dance itself and for the beliefs she put into her art (spirituality, freedom of the body and of movement, sublimation or the body and its holiness through dance)

in that order: Isidora Duncan, Isidora Duncan draw by José Clara, one of her student's Maria-Theresa Duncan, and one of her students' student Madeleine Lytton.

i'm particularly inspired by this video for a "softer" more subdued dance for them, even if the Herb Bride Dance of My Mind is not obviously not this structured and not this consistent/followed across brides, but i find it a good demonstration of the footwork & armswork within a fuller, longer choreography. i also adore this video because you get to see dancers of varied body types and ages

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more to add as i discover new things, new performances and choreographers :3