#Marianne de Cocteau

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[josiebelladonna]

“we need more women in music/more female fronted bands.”

this is another sentiment i see a lot, and it’s usually from the grunge camp. gonna tell you this right now, the only part of this i’m really hung up on is the “female fronted” part.

okay.

off the top of your head, name one.

hmmm... let’s see, there's:

Jefferson Airplane

Janis Joplin

Melanie

The Pretenders (i think Chrissy went solo at one point?)

Blondie*

Heart

Fleetwood Mac

Joan Jett

The Plasmatics

The Waitresses

Cocteau Twins

The Sugarcubes (Bjork, too)

Hammerbox

L7

7 Year Bitch

Hole* (and by that extent, Auf de Maur)

Garbage

No Doubt*

Veruca Salt

Jack Off Jill

Bikini Kill

Le Tigre

Bratmobile

Babes in Toyland

Lunachicks (who are awesome)

Sleater-Kinney

PJ Harvey

Lush

Poe (side-note: her brother Mark Danielewski wrote House of Leaves)

Fiona Apple

Olivia Rodrigo (arguably; as someone who grew up in that era, she wouldn’t sound out of place in the 2000s)

Sonic Youth when Kim's on vocals

Pixies when Kim's on vocals

The Breeders

Throwing Muses

Skunk Anansie (Skin singing with Sevendust counts)

Guano Apes (Sandra’s solo career counts, too)

Luscious Jackson—all female no less; they also have a lesbian drummer

Portishead (who believe it or not, influenced Limp Bizkit of all people)

The Dresden Dolls (Amanda’s solo career, too)

The Donnas (another all-female)

Paramore*

Evanescence (Amy’s solo career, too)

Lacuna Coil

Halestorm*

The Pretty Reckless*

In This Moment*

Butcher Babies

Jinjer

Otep*

New Year’s Day

Huntress

Stitched Up Heart

Infected Rain

Arch Enemy (twice over no less)

Whitesnake, as of this past thanksgiving

Madonna... when she was first starting out

Madonna... when her kids were born

there’s also D’arcy from the Smashing Pumpkins

Sandy Denny, who sang on The Battle of Evermore

Nathalie Lorichs, who sang on Coil by Opeth

Cilla Black

Courtney Barnett

Elle King

ZZ Ward

Dorothy*

anything Marianne Faithfull touches *cough cough* The Memory Remains *cough cough*

anything Pearl Aday touches Scott

six words: The Great Gig in the Sky

Prince had a chick bass player and drummer; I think Lenny Kravitz does, too?

any of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s women singers (Meeun Kim, too; that’s a lot of Kims)

and there’s also Malina Moye and Divinity Roxx (black women to boot)

(no, miley does NOT count and stfu about her already)

the ones with an asterisk are the ones who went the gwen stefani route and left their band mates behind for a pop career or they probably could have at any point and i’m genuinely surprised they haven’t. i’ll explain this, too.

now. the phrase “female fronted bands” and also “women in music” annoys me, someone who has difficulty in fully identifying as a woman because i feel i’m at the mercy of gender roles, and like i let this gender down with something like this. like i’m strictly forbidden to say something like this otherwise i’m a misogynist and i should be ostracized twice over. (i just don’t feel like i belong with women anyways, like i’m a complete phony and i’m not feminine enough to identify as a woman, but that’s beside the point)

but it's the same reason behind why my old friend lydia and i left s.w.e. when i was in stem school.

what's the matter, you think the girls can't be as good as the boys? or worse, you think they're better than the boys? the sentiment itself makes it sound like you deserve special treatment all because you’re a woman. it sounds separatist, like just because you’re a woman, you’re put in a league of your own, and it doesn’t sound fair to me. at all. and whether you like it or not, a few of these have taken it a bit too far at this point and let it go to their heads (looking at you, lzzy hale and taylor momsen). and when gwen came back to no doubt, their music suffered - my brother and his wife at the time saw them back in 2010 and they actually left about halfway through. her marriage to yeehaw doesn’t help matters, either.

point is, there’s been and are lots of women in rock music so there’s really no reason to say that. and just ‘cause you see a female face there doesn’t mean they’re to be put up on a pedestal like that. we’re as human as our male counterparts, you know. i hope.

[justforbooks]

Juliette Gréco was born on February 7, 1927. She was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Jolie Môme", "Déshabillez-moi", and "La Javanaise". She sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian and singers like Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. Her sixty-year career finished in 2015 when she began her last worldwide tour titled "Merci".

As an actress, Gréco played roles in films by French directors such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville.

Gréco was portrayed by actress Anna Mouglalis in the film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010).

Jean-Paul Sartre based the singer in his trilogy The Roads to Freedom (Les chemins de la liberté) on Gréco.

An allusion to Gréco is made by English singer Ray Davies in the song "Art School Babe" from his album Storyteller.

"Michelle" by the Beatles was inspired by Gréco and the Parisian Left Bank culture. Paul McCartney said of the song: "We'd tag along to these parties, and it was at the time of people like Juliette Greco, the French bohemian thing. They'd all wear black turtleneck sweaters, it's kind of where we got all that from, and we fancied Juliette like mad. Have you ever seen her? Dark hair, real chanteuse, really happening. So I used to pretend to be French, and I had this song that turned out later to be 'Michelle'."

John Lennon wrote in Skywriting by Word of Mouth: "I'd always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist à la Juliette Gréco."

Marianne Faithfull said of Gréco: "When I was a young girl, Juliette Gréco was my absolute idol...She’s my role model for life. If I want to be anybody, I want to be Juliette Gréco".

In 1999, a rose was named after her by Georges Delbard under the name of "Juliette Gréco".

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

[hello-robin-goodfellow]

FAVORITE MOVIE LOVE STORIES

THANKS FOR THE TAG: @superkingofpriderock​

Belle and Beast (Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, 1946)

Since i was a kid, Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite western european fairy tale. I relate at the same to the Beast’s desire to be accepted by the society that fears and looks down his appearance and to Belle’s mixture of fear, curiosity and fascination by the hybrid anthropomorfic creature. And with their great chemistry, the actors Josette Day and Jean Marais really captured those feelings in this classic adaptation directed by Jean Cocteaus

Damiel and Marion (Wings of Desire, 1987)

A 1987 film by Wim Wenders originally called Der Himmel über Berlin (lit: ‘The Heavens Above Berlin’).The film depicts two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, wandering in Cold War era Berlin and listening to the thoughts of humans. Among those humans are an old man looking for the now-destroyed Potsdamer Platz and recalling the good times he used to have there; Peter Falk As Himself; and Marion, a lonely French trapezist desperately looking for a purpose in life.  The angels don’t directly intervene in human existence but sometimes give comfort to humans who need it, like a woman in labor, or a suicidal man on a tram, or a motorcyclist who is dying in the street after he was struck by a car. However, Damiel yearns to be human himself and to experience life as a mortal does. Eventually he falls in love with Marion, the trapeze artist, and has to make a difficult choice: to become human himself in order to be with her, leaving Heaven.

Queen Fantaghirò and King Romualdo (Fantaghirò/The Cave of the Golden Rose franchise, 1991-96)

Fantaghirò (known in the english speaking world as The Cave of the Golden Rose) is a series of five television films produced in Italy by Lamberto Bava (Mario Bava’s son), telling the adventures of Fantaghirò, the youngest of three princess sisters, who traines to become a brave warrior as a way to get free of the sexist restrictions imposed at her life by her father. Her kingdom has been at war with a neighbor kingdom for years, and one day the rencently crowned young adversary king, Romualdo, decides to end the war by personally challenging the best champion of Fantaghirò’s kingdom. Fantaghirò, disguised as man, presents herself as this champion, and their love story begins when Romualdo falls in love with the beauty of her eyes. What’s interesting about this couple is how their personalitys complement each other: Fantaghirò with a more combative strong temper, and Romualdo with a more sweet and calm temper.

Marianne Danielle and Doctor Van Helsing (The Brides of Dracula, 1960)

While watching Hammer Horror’s Brides of Dracula, i finded adorable how Doctor Van Helsing cares for Marianne Danielle (whom he befriends while arriving at Transilvania), how he wants to protect her and respects her feelings, to the point of trying contain his sorrow when she announces her engagement with Baron Meinster. I always imagine that when he defeated the Baron (who is revealed to be a vampire), and flee the wind mill with Marianne, he declared his feelings, she reciprocated, he teached her how to fight vampires, they married and became a battle couple searching to purge the world of the vampires. This is a pairing who deservers more love, fanart and fanfiction.

Fininha and Clécio (Tatuagem, 2013)

Tatuagem (Tattoo) is a movie set in the late 1970s, during the period of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship, that tells the love story between Fininha, an young soldier, and Clécio, an actor and playwrighter who produces satirical plays for a underground theater called Chão de Estrelas (Floor of Stars). Their romance is one of the most sweetest ever captured on film, but we also feel a certain unease that the fact of Fininha being at the service of the military who persecutes the theater artists will break the couple apart at any moment…

Karaba and Kirikou (Kirikou and the Sorceress, 1998)

Kirikou and the Sorceress is a 1998 French animated film, directed by Michel Ocelot, loosely based on a West African fairy tale.  It tells the story of a tiny baby boy, named Kirikou, who is born in a spectacular way (all by himself, without effort of his mother nor outside help) and can speak and walk immediately after being born. After a couple of questions, he learns that a wicked sorceress, Karaba, has cursed the village and devoured all the men and boys, except his uncle, who is on his way to fight the sorceress. He tricks the sorceress, saves his uncle as well as the children of the village (twice!!), brings the water back to the dried-up spring and, among other things, discovers the sorceress’ true motivations: Karaba is evil because of all the suffering she went through at the hands of men, including a very subtly implied rape. All the bad things that she allegedly had done are ultimately proved to be false. She does hate everyone, but she gets better. Despite being a baby, Kirikou asks Karaba in marriage when she pulls a Heel–Face Turn, saying that he doesn’t like little girls. She doesn’t accept, of course, but then her kiss turns him into a handsome young man.

Nina Shah and Lisa MacKinlay (Nina’s Heavenly Delights, 2006)

Nina’s Heavenly Delights is a Rom Com about a cooking contest,  directed by Pratibha Parmar. The death of her father Mohan brings prodigal daughter, Scot with Indian ancestry Nina (Shelley Conn) home again to Glasgow, her mother, siblings - and the family restaurant, “The Taj”. Being able to keep the latter now hinges on the cooking skills Nina learned at her father‘s knees. In the “Best of The West Curry Competition” she will have to face the former fiancé she left at the altar, Sanjay. In this competition, she will count with the partnership of Lisa, who owns half of the restaurant since Mohan’s death and already seems to be very much part of Nina’s family. And in the proccess, Lisa also becomes a part of Nina’s heart… 

Lady and Tramp (Lady and the Tramp, 1955)

I grew up watching VHSs of the old Disney 2-D Animated movies over, and over, and over. And a thing that i find funny is that most people tend to quote movies from the 1990s Disney Renaissance as when Disney Couples started to met each other first instead of fall in love at first sight, bu when we make a retrospective, in actuality it was Lady and Tramp who started the trend. First they met at Lady’s house and have a verbal fight due to diverging points of view about humans, them they encounter each other again at the streets when she flees from Aunt Sarah, and they walk trough the zoo to unleash Ladys muzzle, Tramp takes her to dinner at Tonys (wich us gives Bella Notte, one of the most romantic scenes in movie history)… every step that a real couple takes to meet each other is taken by Lady and Tramp.

Orfeo x Eurydice (Black Orpheus, 1959)

Black Orpheus is a 1959 film, a French production shot in Brazil and in the Portuguese language. It is a retelling of the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in Rio during Carnaval. Orfeo is a trolley conductor who moonlights as a dancer in a samba school. He is engaged to be married to the gorgeous and passionate Mira, but doesn’t seem too enthused about it. On his trolley car, he meets Eurydice, who has arrived in Rio from the countryside because she is being chased by a mysterious man who she thinks is trying to kill her. Orfeo and Eurydice fall in love, but the strange man—Death himself—is still stalking her.

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[oumaimas]

tenderness, continued

le miracle de notre vie qui ne ressemble pas à celle des autres (”the miracle of our life that doesn’t have to look like other people’s”, trans. Vivian Tarbert) - jean cocteau to jean marais 

i think of you all the time and therefor have little to say that would not embarass you, for instance my first feeling about the rain was that it was like you -  john cage to merce cunnigham

The minute I heard my first love story/ I started looking for you, not knowing/ how blind that was./ Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere./ They’re in each other all along - Rumi

your letters i just plain love: they bring you so close that at any moment i expect the door will open and you will see me camouflaged in enigmatic home, built on shoes you made - john cage to merce cunnigham

Well Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. - leonard cohen to marianne ihlen

the entirety of “ce que dit elsa” by louis aragon

you touch me/ i hear the sound of mandolins/ you kiss me/ and with your kiss my life begins/ you’re spring to me/ all things to me/ don’t you know you’re life itself… - wild is the wind by nina simone

“Is it odd to say that your lover reminds you of a tree?” - written on the body by jeanette winterson 

[J.J and Teresa see the tornado, J.J. tells Teresa no to worry, this stretch had been hit before, twisters never hit the same place twice] Teresa asked if it was true that tornadoes never hit the same place twice. “I don’t know,” J.J. said. “It seemed logical. Like lightning. You were worried. I didn’t want you worried.” It was as close a declaration of love as J.J. was capable of making. - nothing lost by john gregory dunne, as quoted by joan didion

klaus nomi performing mon coeur d’ouvre à ta voix from samson and delilah

from “a moment of innocence”: “Does she love you?” “Yes.” “Did she say so?” “No” “So how do you know?” “Well…each time she returns my books, here are flowers inside.” […] “Does she read them?” “Of course she does!” “Does she? Have you asked her?” “I can see she’s underlined the good bits” “Does she want to save mankind too?” “Yes.” “How do you know?” “By the sentences she underlines.”

allotments by david inshaw

[truecrimesposts]

THE PAPIN SISTERS  -  Media Portrayals

Les Bonnes, a play by Jean Genet.

The Maids, a film based on Les Bonnes, by Christopher Miles.

My Sister In This House, a play by Wendy Kesselman.

Sister My Sister a film based on My Sister In This House, by Nancy Meckler.

Les Abysses, a film by Nikos Papatakis.

Les Soeurs Pain, a book by R. Le Texier.

Blood Sisters, stage and screenplay by Neil Paton.

L'Affaire Papin, a book by Paulette Houdyer.

La Solution Du Passage a L'acte a book by Francis Dure.

Paris Was Yesterday a book by Janet Flanner.

La Ligature, a short film by Gilles Cousin.

Les Muertres Par Procuration, a book by Jean-Claude Asfour.

Lady Killers, a book by Joyce Robins.

Minotaure #3 1933, a magazine.

The Maids, an opera by Peter Bengston.

Les Blessures Assassines, a film by Jean-Pierre Denis.

En Quote Des Soeurs Papin a documentary by Claude Ventura.

Gros Proces Des L'histoire, a book by M. Mamouni.

L'Affaire Papin, a book by Genevieve Fortin.

The Papin Sisters, a book by Rachel Edwards and Keith Reader.

The Maids, an artwork by Paula Rego.

Anna Le Bonne, a spoken song written by Jean Cocteau performed by Marianne Oswald.

[songsforthewolf-blog]

SONG #19 : Marianne OSWALD - En m’en foutant Mettez ça sur le compte de mon « régionalisme » ou de mon goût pour les « outsiders » : je n’en ai rien à foutre d’Édith Piaf. Je n’ai d’yeux que pour Marianne Oswald, grande dame de Sarreguemines. En son temps, elle avait conquis les cœurs d’Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Cocteau et Jacques Prévert, qui lui offriront des vers. Elle est de ces chanteuses dites « réalistes », mais elle a ce truc en plus. L’accent, ok. Mais bien au delà, un tempérament et ce goût de la liberté que j’admire par dessus tout. Son œuvre entière est à (re)visiter. Et faites bien ce que vous voulez de mes conseils : je traverse désormais la vie « en m’en foutant ».

[thick-thighs-and-sharp-eyes]

NPR’s “150 Greatest Albums Made By Women”

“This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record and hopefully the start of a new conversation. Compiled by nearly 50 women from across NPR and the public radio system and produced in partnership with Lincoln Center, it rethinks popular music to put women at the center.” 

Joni Mitchell - Blue (Reprise, 1971)

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia, 1998)

Nina Simone - I Put A Spell on You (Philips, 1965)

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You (Atlantic, 1967)

Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly (The Goldmind/Elektra, 1997)

Beyoncé - Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia, 2016)

Patti Smith - Horses (Arista, 1975)

Janis Joplin - Pearl (Columbia, 1971)

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Island, 2006) 

Carole King - Tapestry (Ode, 1971)

Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors (RCA Records, 1971)

Erykah Badu - Baduizm (Universal, 1997) 

Madonna - Like a Prayer (Sire, 1989)

Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (Arista, 1985)

Diana Ross and the Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (Motown, 1964)

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Warner Bros., 1977)

Janet Jackson - Control (A&M, 1986)

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury, 1998)

Selena - Amor Prohibido (EMI Latin, 1994)

The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (Philles Records, 1964)

PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me (Island Records, 1993)

Sade - Diamond Life (Sony, 1984)

Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (Atlantic, 1972)

Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter (Decca, 1970)

Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle (Righteous Babe Records, 1998)

TLC - CrazySexyCool (LaFace, 1994)

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (Atlantic, 1992)

Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings the Blues (RCA Victor, 1967)

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (Maverick, 1995)

Adele - 21 (Columbia/XL, 2011)

Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville (Capitol/EMI/Matador, 1993)

Björk - Post (Elektra, 1995)

Queen Latifah - All Hail The Queen (Tommy Boy, 1989)

Tina Turner - Private Dancer (Capitol, 1984)

Blondie - Parallel Lines (Chrysalis, 1978)

Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (Island Records, 1981)

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (EMI, 1985)

Odetta - It's a Mighty World (RCA Victor, 1964)

Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (Acony Records, 2001)

The Staple Singers - Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (Stax, 1972)

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (Elektra, 1988)

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book (Verve, 1964)

M.I.A. - Kala (XL/Interscope, 2007)

Heart - Dreamboat Annie (Mushroom, 1976)

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis (Atlantic, 1969)

Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball (Elektra, 1995)

Celia Cruz - Son con Guaguanco (Emusica/Fania, 1966)

Etta James - Rocks The House (Argo, 1964)

Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates (Warner Bros., 1981)

Hole - Live Through This (DGC, 1994)

Sarah Vaughan - Sassy Swings Again (Mercury, 1967)

Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time (Capitol/EMI, 1989)

Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel (Capitol, 1974)

Nico - Chelsea Girl (Verve, 1967)

The Go-Gos - Beauty And The Beat (I.R.S., 1981)

X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents (EMI, 1978)

Mary J. Blige - What's the 411? (Uptown/MCA, 1992)

Labelle - Nightbirds (Epic, 1974)

Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (Epic, 1989)

The Pretenders - Pretenders (Sire, 1980)

Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall (Columbia, 1999)

Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces (BMG/Sony, 1998)

Madonna - Like a Virgin (Sire, 1984)

Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin, 1996)

Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note, 1993)

Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (Reprise, 1967)

Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Chrysalis Records, 1990)

Rosanne Cash - King's Record Shop (Columbia, 1987)

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (Portrait/Sony 1983)

Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna (Modern, 1981)

Salt-N-Pepa - Blacks' Magic (London, 1990)

The Runaways - The Runaways (Mercury, 1976)

Astrud Gilberto - The Astrud Gilberto Album (Verve Records, 1965)

The Raincoats - The Raincoats (Rough Trade, 1979)

Donna Summer - Bad Girls (Casablanca, 1979)

Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man (Epic, 1969)

Aaliyah - Aaliyah (Blackground/Virgin America 2001)

The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Choir - Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares (Nonesuch, 1987)

Portishead - Dummy (Go! Beat, 1994)

Laurie Anderson - Big Science (Warner Bros., 1982)

Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars, 1997)

Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry (Columbia, 1969)

Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe (Capitol Records, 1967)

Roberta Flack - First Take (Atlantic, 1969)

Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust (A&M, 1975)

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (GRP/Impulse!, 1971)

X - Los Angeles (Slash/Rhino, 1980)

k. d. lang - Ingénue (Sire, 1992)

Shania Twain - Come On Over (Mercury Records, 1997)

Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl, Broadway Cast Album (Capitol Records, 1964)

Alison Krauss And Union Station - New Favorite (Rounder, 2001)

Meshell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick, 1996)

Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time (Jive Records, 1999)

Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club (A&M, 1993)

Shakira - ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? (Sony, 1998)

Lil' Kim - Hard Core (Big Beat/Undeas Recordings, 1996)

Mariah Carey - Daydream (Columbia Records, 1995)

Bikini Kill - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah (Kill Rock Stars, 1993)

Taylor Swift - Fearless (Big Machine Records, 2008)

Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's My Way! (Vanguard Records, 1964)

Eurythmics - Touch (RCA, 1983)

Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color (ATO, 2015)

Umm Kulthum - Enta Omri (You Are My Life)(Sono, 1964)

ESG - Come Away With ESG (99 Records, 1983)

Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life (Warner Bros., 1984)

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (Interscope, 1995)

The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (Red Bird Records, 1965)

Gladys Knight and the Pips - Imagination (Buddah Records, 1973)

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble, 2014)

Miranda Lambert - Platinum (RCA Nashville, 2014)

Diamanda Galás - The Litanies of Satan (Y, 1982)

Mercedes Sosa - Mercedes Sosa en Argentina (Universal Distribution/Philips, 1982)

Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black (Atlantic Records, 1972)

Reba McEntire - Rumor Has It (MCA, 1990)

La Lupe & Tito Puente - La Pareja (Fania/Tico Records, 1978)

Macy Gray - On How Life Is (Epic, 1999)

Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Boardwalk, 1981)

Chaka Khan - I Feel for You (Warner Bros., 1984)

The Slits - Cut (Island Records, 1979)

Anita Baker - Rapture (Elektra, 1986)

Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Asylum, 1976)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream (Polydor, 1978)

Cris Williamson - The Changer and the Changed: A Record of the Times (Olivia Records, 1975)

Carly Simon - No Secrets (Elektra, 1972)

Fiona Apple - Tidal (Work Group/Clean Slate/Columbia, 1996)

The Carpenters - A Song for You (A&M Records, 1972)

Sonic Youth - Sister (SST, 1987)

Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - Deep Listening (New Albion, 1989)

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Island, 1979)

Teena Marie - Wild and Peaceful (Motown Records, 1979)

Shirley Horn - I Thought About You — Live At Vine St. (Verve Records, 1987)

Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne (Island/Mercury, 2000)

Fanny - Fanny Hill (Reprise, 1972)

Solange - A Seat at the Table (Saint/Columbia 2016)

The B-52's - The B-52's (Warner Bros., 1979)

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (Apple Records, 1970)

Ofra Haza - 50 Gates Of Wisdom (Yemenite Songs) (Shanachie, 1987)

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (4AD, 1990)

The Bangles - All Over the Place (Columbia, 1984)

Norah Jones - Come Away with Me (Blue Note, 2002)

Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City, 2006)

Iris DeMent - My Life (Warner Bros., 1993)

Robyn - Body Talk (Konichiwa Records, 2010)

The Breeders - Last Splash (4AD/Elektra, 1993)

Oumou Sangare - Moussolou (Women) (Kartell/World Circuit, 1989)

Patty Griffin - Flaming Red (A&M, 1998)

Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music (ECM, 1981)

Terri Lyne Carrington - The Mosaic Project (Concord Jazz, 2011)

Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor (J Records, 2001)

The Roches - The Roches (Warner Bros., 1979) 

Starting here: http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538307314/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women-page-15

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150 Greatest Albums Made by Women

This list was created by NPR Music which posted it with fascinating essays on each artist which can be found here: http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538386562/%E2%80%9D/2017/07/20/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women The criteria were albums by women or women-centered groups since 1964. I decided to pull the albums out of the web format and make a list that was easier to read through as I enjoy sampling all of these artists.

1. Joni Mitchell ~ Blue 2. Lauryn Hill ~ The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 3. Nina Simone ~ I Put A Spell on You 4. Aretha Franklin ~ I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You 5. Missy Elliott ~ Supa Dupa Fly 6. Beyonce ~ Lemonade 7. Patti Smith ~ Horses 8. Janis Joplin ~ Pearl 9. Amy Winehouse ~ Back to Black 10. Carol King ~ Tapestry 11. Dolly Parton ~ Coat Of Many Colors 12.  Erykah Badu ~ Baduizm 13. Madonna ~ Like a Prayer 14. Whitney Houston ~ Whitney Houston 15. Diana Ross and the Supremes ~ Where Did Our Love Go 16. Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours 17. Janet Jackson ~ Control 18. Lucinda Williams ~ Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 19. Selena ~ Amor Prohibido 20. The Ronettes ~ Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica 21. PJ Harvey ~ Rid of Me 22. Sade ~ Diamond Life 23. Aretha Franklin ~ Amazing Grace 24. Loretta Lynn ~ Coal Miner's Daughter 25. Ani Difranco ~ Little Plastic Castle 26. TLC ~ CrazySexyCool 27. Tori Amos ~ Little Earthquakes 28. Nina Simone ~ Nina Simone Sings the Blues 29. Alanis Morissette ~ Jagged Little Pill 30. Adele ~ 21 31. Liz Phair ~ Exile In Guyville 32. Björk ~ Post 33. Queen Latifah ~ All Hail the Queen 34. Tina Turner ~ Private Dancer 35. Blondie ~ Parallel Lines 36. Grace Jones ~ Nightclubbing 37. Kate Bush ~ Hounds of Love 38. Odetta ~ It's a Mighty World 39. Gillian Welch ~ Time (The Revelator) 40. The Staples Singers ~ Be Altitude: Respect Yourself 41. Tracy Chapman ~ Tracy Chapman 42. Ella Fitzgerald ~ Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book 43. M.I.A. ~ Kala 44. Heart ~ Dreamboat Annie 45. Dusty Springfield ~ Dusty in Memphis 46. Emmylou Harris ~ Wrecking Ball 47. Celia Cruz ~ Son con Guaguanco 48. Etta James ~ Rocks The House 49. Rickie Lee Jones ~ Pirates 50. Hole ~ Live Through This 51. Sarah Vaughan ~ Sassy Swings Again 52. Bonnie Raitt ~ Nick of Time 53. Linda Rondstat ~ Heart Like a Wheel 54. Nico ~ Chelsea Girl 55. The Go-Gos ~ Beauty And The Beat 56. X-Ray Spex ~ Germfree Adolescents 57. Mary J. Blige ~ What's the 411? 58. Labelle ~ Nightbirds 59. Indigo Girls ~ Indigo Girls 60. The Pretenders ~ Pretenders 61. Destiny's Child ~ The Writing's on the Wall 62. Dixie Chicks ~ Wide Open Spaces 63. Madonna ~ Like a Virgin 64. Spice Girls ~ Spice 65. Cassandra Wilson ~ Blue Light 'Til Dawn 66. Miriam Makeba ~ Pata Pata 67. Sinead O'Connor ~ I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 68. Roseanne Cash ~ King's Record Shop 69. Cyndi Lauper ~ She's So Unusual 70. Stevie Nicks ~ Bella Donna 71. Salt-n-Pepa ~ Blacks' Magic 72. The Runaways ~ The Runaways 73. Astrud Gilberto ~ The Astrud Gilberto Album 74. The Raincoats ~ The Raincoats 75. Donna Summer ~ Bad Girls 76. Tammy Wynette ~ Stand By Your Man 77. Aaliyah ~ Aaliyah The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Choir ~ Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares 79. Portishead  ~ Dummy 80. Laurie Anderson ~ Big Science 81. Sleater-Kinney ~ Dig Me Out 82. Laura Nyro ~ New York Tendaberry 83. Bobbie Gentry ~ Ode to Billie Joe 84. Roberta Flack ~ First Take 85. Joan Baez ~ Diamonds & Rust 86. Alice Coltrane ~ Journey in Satchidananda 87. X ~ Los Angeles 88. k.d. lang ~ Ingénue 89. Shania Twain ~ Come on Over 90. Barbra Streisand ~ Funny Girl, Broadway Cast Album 91. Alison Krauss And Union Station ~ New Favorite 92. Meshell Ndegeocello ~ Peace Beyond Passion 93. Britney Spears ~ ...Baby One More Time 94. Sheryl Crow ~ Tuesday Night Music Club 95. Shakira ~ ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? 96.  Lil' Kim ~ Hard Core 97. Mariah Carey ~ Daydream 98. Bikini Kill ~ Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 99. Taylor Swift ~ Fearless 100. Buffy Sainte-Marie ~ It's My Way 101. Eurythmics ~ Touch 102. Alabama Shakes ~ Sound & Color 103. Umm Kulthum ~ Enta Omri (You Are My Life) 104. ESG ~ Come Away with ESG 105. Sheila E. ~ The Glamorous Life 106. No Doubt ~ Tragic Kingdom 107. The Shangri-Las ~ Leader of the Pack 108. Gladys Knight & The Pips ~ Imagination 109. Against Me! ~ Transgender Dysphoria Blues 110. Miranda Lambert ~ Platinum 111. Diamanda Galás ~ The Litanies of Satan 112. Mercedes Sosa ~ Mercedes Sosa en Argentina 113. Aretha Franklin ~ Young, Gifted and Black 114. Reba McEntire ~ Rumor Has It 115. La Lupe & Tito Puente ~ La Pareja 116. Macy Gray ~ On How Life Is 117. Joan Jett ~ I Love Rock 'n' Roll 118. Chaka Khan ~ I Feel For You 119. The Slits ~ Cut 120. Anita Baker ~ Rapture 121. Joni Mitchell ~ Hejira 122. Siouxsie and the Banshees ~ The Scream 123. Chris Williamson ~ The Changer and the Changed: A Record of the Times 124. Carly Simon ~ No Secrets 125. Fiona Apple ~ Tidal 126. The Carpenters ~ A Song for You 127.  Sonic Youth ~ Sister 128.  Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis ~ Deep Listening 129. Marianne Faithfull ~ Broken English 130. Teena Maria ~ Wild and Peaceful 131. Shirley Horn ~ I Thought About You — Live At Vine St. 132. Shelby Lynne ~ I Am Shelby Lynne 133. Fanny ~ Fanny Hill 134. Solange ~ A Seat at the Table 135. The B-52's ~ The B-52's 136. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band ~ Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band 137. Ofra Haza ~ 50 Gates Of Wisdom (Yemenite Songs) 138. Cocteau Twins ~ Heaven or Las Vegas 139. The Bangles ~ All Over the Place 140. Norah Jones ~ Come Away with Me 141. Joanna Newsom ~ Ys 142. Iris DeMent ~ My Life 143. Robyn ~ Body Talk 144. The Breeders ~ Last Splash 145. Oumou Sangare ~ Moussolou (Women) 146. Patty Griffin ~ Flaming Red 147. Meredith Monk ~ Dolmen Music 148. Terri Lyne Carrington ~ The Mosaic Project 149. Alicia Keys ~ Songs In A Minor 150. The Roches ~ The Roches

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A primeira exposición sobre Mulleres Surrealistas chega á sala Mayoral

O surrealismo ten moitos anos de voo; pero hai cousas que non mudan, a invisibilidade das mulleres artistas, por exemplo. A primeira mostra que leva por título Mulleres Surrealistas atópase agora na Galería Mayoral de Barcelona. A primeira en toda España. Nela hai –como era de esperar-- pezas de Maruxa Mallo.

Lito Caramés 

Mujeres surrealistas y su conexión con Cataluña 

Na céntrica rúa Concell de Cent, en pleno Eixample barcelonés, abriu as súas portas no ano 1989 a Galería Mayoral, propiedade de Manel Mayoral, e especializada en arte contemporáneo, especialmente nas creacións que se fixeron entre 1930 e 1975. Levan feito mostras de artistas como Dalí, Miró, Calder, Picasso, Chillida, Tàpies e outros. Actualmente as súas instalacións están inzadas de creacións de mulleres que militaron o surrealismo, conformando así a primeira exposición que con tal título se fai en España. Mujeres surrealistas y su conexión con Cataluña, recolle unhas vinte pezas entre óleos, debuxos e fotografías, que pertencen a oito mulleres artistas que se viron relacionadas co surrealismo, tanto por abrazar os seus manifestos e propostas, como por ser compañeiras dalgúns dos máis coñecidos ideólogos e artistas do movemento patroneado por André Breton. Si, tamén nesta vangarda rachadora dos anos 20 e 30 do pasado século as mulleres estiveron discriminadas: son as súas parellas masculinas as que constan e enchen páxinas e páxinas nos libros de historia da arte.

Mujeres surrealistas y su conexión con Cataluña está comisariada por Victoria Combalía, historiadora e crítica de arte. Para xuntar as 20 pezas, a comisaria tivo que acudir a préstamos de coleccionistas privados, do arquivo Lee Miller, dos herdeiros de Joan Miró e mais do Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC). Victoria Combalía é autora do libro La poética de lo neutro. Análisis y crítica del arte conceptual (1975), todo un referente na comprensión da arte posterior á Segunda guerra Mundial, mentres que a obra Amazonas con pincel afonda no coñecemento das esquecidas: as mulleres pintoras mantidas no anonimato adrede, entre os séculos XVI e XXI; aí están, entre outras Artemisia Gentilleschi ou Vigée Le-Brun, Camille Claudel, Georgia O’Keeffe e Dora Maar, Frida Khalo, Eva Hesse ou Diane Arbus. Respecto do tema desta exposición ten publicado un libro co título ben acertado: Musas, mecenas y amantes: mujeres en torno al surrealismo. O dito, as mulleres relegadas á categoría de acompañantes. En 2003 o Ministerio de Cultura da República Francesa nombrouna Chevalière des Arts et des Lettres, e no 2009  o Goberno da Generalitat de Catalunya outorgoulle a Medalla President Macià.

Maruxa Mallo e Valentine Hugo

La presencia de las artistas surrealistas se ha ido incrementando en los últimos años en los museos y en las exposiciones, y ya no son consideradas solo como musas o amantes, sinó como artistas por ellas mismas. Pero todavía quedan muchos temas colaterales por explorar en sus vidas y sus obras (Victoria Combalía, comisaria). 

Como a exposición titúlase Mujeres surrealistas y su conexión con Cataluña, hai que buscar esa relación coas terras catalás. Valentine Hugo viaxou a Cadaqués (1932) co seu amante, André Breton, co gallo de visitar a Gala e mais a Dalí. Aínda que pouco ou nada se teña dito dela, foi membro activo do grupo surrealista, co que expuxo obra en varias ocasións. Foi ilustradora de libros de escritores como Rimbaud, Eluard, etc. e deseñadora de vestiario e decorados de teatro. Estando en Cadaqués confeccionou, xunto cos acompañantes, algúns cadavres exquis. Os cadavres exquisites son un invento surrealista, nado á sombra da escritura automática (e a arte automática, tamén). Trátase de escribir unha verba (ou varias, ou comezar un deseño) e pasas a folla dobrada a outra persoa para que continúe a composición. Ao final xorden resultados moi lúcidos e atractivos. Segundo contan, chámanse cadavres exquisites os resultados de tal acción automática porque un día Ives Tanguy e Joan Miró fixeron ese xogo; eo que lles saíu foi Le cadavre exquis boira du nouveau vin.

A relación que atopou Victoria Combalía entre Maruxa Mallo e Cataluña reside nas exposicións acontecidas en Barcelona con pezas de Mallo. A primeira foi a coñecida Exposición Logicofccobista (1936, organizada por ADLAN, Amics de l’Art Nou), e logo, volta xa do exilio, nos anos 1967 e 1968. Maruxa Mallo foi unha artista hoxe bastante esquecida, pero que nos anos 30 formou parte das vangardas españolas, ao pé de Alberti, María Zambrano, García Lorca ou Buñuel. Unha bolsa de estudos da Junta de Ampliación de Estudios permitiulle, en 1932, viaxar a París. Alí rapidamente entra en contacto co grupo surrealista (Magritte, de Chirico, Ernst, etc.). Pero a quen máis impresionou a pintora foi a Eluard e Breton, este último mercoulle a peza Los Espantapájaros (1930). Segundo contou a propia pintora, Eluard quería outro, pero confesou: n'ai pas d'argent. A liberdade persoal e creativa de Mallo foi recoñecida por amigos e inimigos. Era a única muller que en Madrid -anos 30- viaxaba en bicicleta, razón pola que a xente tiráballe pedras; e nunha entrevista en televisión a filósofa María Zambrano declarou: nunca conocí a un espíritu tan libre como Maruja Mallo. Cando embarcou en Lisboa camiño do exilio (1936) só levaba con ela un lenzo: Sorpresa del Trigo (1936), peza que produciu impresionada pola manifestación do 1º de maio do 36, como ela mesmo ten explicado. O documental Maruja Mallo, mitad ángel, mitad marisco recolle a vida, obra e pensamentos da pintora de Viveiro. Da relación amorosa e creativa que tivo con Rafael Alberti queda, por exemplo, o poema que el lle dedicou en 1929 (La primera ascensión de Maruja Mallo al subsuelo), que comeza: Tú, / tú que bajas a las cloacas donde las flores más flores son ya unos tristes salivazos sin sueños / y mueres por las alcantarillas que desembocan a las verbenas desiertas / para resucitar al filo de una piedra mordida por un hongo estancado, / dime por qué las lluvias pudren las horas y las maderas. / Aclárame esta duda que tengo sobre los paisajes. / Despiértame. Da gran pintora galega móstranse en Mayoral dúas pezas: Cabezas y atletas (1945) e Joven negra desnuda (1946), as dúas creacións do exilio suramericano e chegadas agora da galería Guillermo de Osma, de Madrid.

Ángeles Santos, Dora Maar, Lee Miller

Como ben explica Victoria Combalía no seu estudo Musas, mecenas y amantes, moitas das artistas que agora teñen obra na Galería Mayoral son coñecidas mormente pola súa relación con outra persoa; de sexo masculino. Así acontece tamén coa fotógrafa Lee Miller, amante de Man Ray. Comezou a súa actividade profesional como modelo na revista Vogue, nos anos 20. Pero quería ser fotógrafa profesional, e trasladouse a París para ser alumna de Man Ray. Man Ray non a aceptou de bo grado, aínda que acabou téndoa como asistente, e tamén como amante (coñecería a Marianne Breslauer, que tamén quixo aprender fotografía con Man Ray?). Participou activamente no movemento surrealista, sendo amiga de Eluard e mais de Cocteau. Durante a Segunda guerra Mundial foi fotorreporteira de guerra; desa etapa é ben coñecida a foto na ela dáse un baño na bañeira de Adolf Hitler. Viaxou a Barcelona varias veces nos anos 60 e 70, onde fotografou a Joan Miró e a Antoni Tàpies, entre outros. Neste portal Lee Miller archives é doado contemplar parte da súa produción, algunhas das instantáneas ben surrealistas.  Na sala Mayoral móstranse dúas fotografías de Miller, unha delas é a suxestiva e vangardista Portrait of Space (1937).

Por non falar de Dora Maar, que semella que o seu nome salvouse do esquecemento colectivo por ter sido amante de Picasso (a este respecto hai un portal nas redes chamado –moi significativamente-- Ellas sin Picasso). Henriette Theodora Markovitch, máis coñecida como Dora Maar, foi unha gran fotógrafa que comezou pola moda e a publicidade. No ano 1934 entra en contacto co grupo surrealista e aí muda a súa percepción estética. As súas instantáneas serán agora enigmáticas, mesmo tenebrosas, tratando de subverter os convencionalismos e darlle aos obxectos e corpos outros significados, envoltos nunha arquitectura monumental que recorda a de Chirico. Ata que no ano 1936 coñece nun café de París a Picasso, e o minotauro acaba devorándoa. A relación dura nove anos de efervescencia creativa dos dous: Dora Maar é testemuña directa da creación do Guernica, como acredita a serie de fotografías que fixo do proceso e que agora conserva o Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid. Viaxou varias veces a Barcelona, algunha con Picasso (por exemplo a última que o malagueño estivo en Barcelona, e en España -1934-, cando visitou as pinturas románicas traídas do Perineo). En Mayoral estes meses pódense varias fotografías de Dora Maar: un retrato de María Dolors Miró, filla do pintor, e tamén fotos sociais: o mercado da Boquería ou as barracas do Somorrostro. Das vinte pezas expostas en Mayoral véndense unhas poucas, entre elas un gran lenzo de Maar, Natureza Morta (1946), por 300.000 euros. Victoria Combalía é especialista nesta artista, coa que logrou falar por teléfono e recoller impresións dunha muller tan significada. Conta a comisaria que Maar non lle colgou o teléfono (seica o facía con toda a xente da prensa) porque comezou dicíndolle: Eu quero falar de vostede, non de Picasso. Nas relacións destas oito artistas surrealistas con Cataluña sobresae Ángeles Santos, pois naceu en Portbou, aínda que logo viaxou por toda España e por Europa. Nos anos 20 a súa pintura aproxímase ao surrealismo, levada polo onirismo que emana das súas composicións. Foi moi ben acollida en Madrid, recibindo críticas favorables de intelectuais como García Lorca, Gómez de la Serna ou Jorge Guillén. A partir de 1933 instálase en Barcelona, e aquí recibirá fortes ataques á súa obra desde as filas do noucentismo; feito que a leva a abandonar a pintura. Cando retorna a pintar, anos 50, os seus lenzos representan paisaxes e temáticas máis doces. Na galería Mayoral está unha das pezas que mellor representa as súas inquedanzas estéticas dos anos 20: Alma que huye de un sueño (1929). Alejandra Pizarnik ilustra os surrealismos no poema en prosa titulado Cantora nocturna, e dedicado a Olga Orozco: Expuesta a todas las perdiciones, ella canta junto a una niña extraviada que es ella: su amuleto de la buena suerte. Y a pesar de la niebla verde en los labios y del frío gris en los ojos, su voz corroe la distancia que se abre entre la sed y la mano que busca el vaso. Ella canta (Extracción de la piedra de locura, 1968). Tamén se pode ver na rúa Consell de Cent un deseño preparatorio da súa famosa pintura Un mundo (1929), que se conserva no Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid.

Remedios Varo, Frida Khalo, Leonora Carrington

Un caso ben rechamante --na súa relación coas terras catalás-- é o da pintora mexicana Frida Khalo. Khalo nunca estivo en Barcelona, nin en Catalunya. Obras súas están nesta exposición pola súa apaixonada relación amorosa co pintor Josep Bartolí. Os dous artistas coñecéronse nun hospital de Manhattan, alá por 1946, ela tratándose da multifracturada columna e Bartolí acabado de chegar fuxindo da Guerra Civil e dos campos de exterminio nazis. Da relación de ambos sóubose, mormente, polo feito de que en 2015 poxáronse 25 cartas de amor nas que a pintora declara abertamente o amor que sente polo pintor e ilustrador catalán: Anoche sentía como si muchas alas me acariciaran toda, como si en la yema de tus dedos hubiera bocas que me besaran la piel. Los átomos de mi cuerpo son los tuyos y vibran juntos para querernos. (...) Te quiero como eres, me enamora tu voz, todo lo que dices, lo que haces, lo que proyectas. Siento que te quise siempre, desde que naciste, y antes, cuando te concibieron. Y a veces siento que me naciste a mi. De Frida Khalo a Galería Mayoral mostra tres deseños inéditos nestas xeografías. Un deles é moi peculiar; trátase do Autorretrato como genitales (1944), que a artista mexicana debuxou nun dos seus cadernos e que agora, enmarcado, chega a Barcelona tras longas xestións da comisaria Combalía, pois é propiedade dun coleccionista dos Estados Unidos.  

No ano 1940 pasa por Barcelona, fuxindo dos nazis a pintora inglesa Leonora Carrington. Pasa por Barcelona camiño de Madrid onde pretende conseguir un visado para a súa parella o pintor alemán Max Ernst, encarcerado e enviado ao campo de concentración Les Milles (Francia). Como non o conseguiu sufriu trastornos emocionais e foi recluída nun hospital psiquiátrico en Santander. De alí logrou fuxir, pasou a Portugal, e logo a EE.UU. En 1942 chega a México, onde residiu permanentemente e onde se nacionalizou. Moi nova xa entrou no grupo dos surrealistas en París, e participou nas exposicións que fixo este grupo en Amsterdam e en París. A súa obra está moi influída polos contos de fadas, polo onirismo e mais pola alquimia. Nos anos oitenta comezou a cultivar tamén a escultura en bronce; algunhas das súas esculturas habitan agora prazas da república mexicana. De Carrington mostra a galería Mayoral o deseño Sin título (caballos) e  a súa pintura Maja del Tarot (1965), onde se fan presentes o onirismo e signos propios do tarot. Os versos da poetisa surrealista Olga Orozco acompañan ben esta pintura: Tú levantaste el muro que lo ampara, pero fue sin querer la Torre que lo encierra: / una prisión de seda donde el amor hace sonar sus llaves de insobornable carcelero. / En tanto el Carro aguarda la señal de partir: la aparición del día vestido de Ermitaño (Los juegos peligrosos, 1962).

Para acabar, a pintora Remedios Varo, ten coincidencias con moitas das artistas que nestes días comparten sala coas súas obras. María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga, máis coñecida como Remedios Varo, naceu en Anglés, Girona, e é por tanto catalá de nacemento ao par de Ángeles Santos. Membro do grupo Logicofobista (que pretendía representar os estados mentais internos da alma con formas suxestivas), participou activamente na Exposición Logicofobista celebrada na libraría Catalonia de Barcelona, coma Maruxa Mallo. Estudou en Madrid e alá polo ano 1935 coñeceu a compoñentes do grupo surrealista (Breton, Ernst, e a Leonora Carrington) e tamén ao poeta Benjamin Péret, persoa principal dentro do movemento surrealista coa que tivo unha relación amorosa que acabou en voda. En 1941 Varo e Péret viaxan a México, exiliados, onde se instalará definitivamente, obtendo a nacionalidade. En México participa en exposicións colectivas e volve coincidir con Leonora Carrington. A finais dos anos 40 viaxa nunha expedición científica a Venezuela, dedicándose a labouras de entomoloxía: debuxar insectos. De volta en México seguiu coa súa dedicación á pintura, coñecendo a destacados artistas: Frida Khalo, Diego Rivera, o poeta Octavio Paz (que dixo da súa enigmática pintura: esta mujer pinta lentamente rápidas apariciones). A pintura de Remedios Varo veuse moi influenciada pola psicanálise, pola alquimia, a astroloxía, por todo o onírico, tinguindo os seus lenzos con lufadas do Bosco, cando non de universos paralelos aos de Chagall. E tamén de Brueguel. A editorial Atalanta dedicoulle unha escolma de estudos e reflexións, baixo o atractivo título de Cinco llaves del mundo secreto de Remedios Varo, onde se declara que as cinco chaves que abren as portas da produción pictórica de Remedios Varo son: a chave esotérica, a surrealista, a literaria, a chave do mundo onírico e a chave do mundo arquitectónico. En 1960 pinta o óleo Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista, no que reflicte parte das súas constantes. Nunha carta ao seu irmán fálalle desta pintura dicindo: Esta señora que sale del psicoanalista arrojando a un pozo la cabeza de su padre (como es correcto hacer al salir del psicoanalista). En el cesto lleva otros desperdicios psicológicos: un reloj, símbolo del temor de llegar tarde, etcétera. El doctor se llama Dr. FJA (Freud, Jung, Adler). Agora nas salas de  Mayoral está colgada a pintura Mujer o el espíritu de la noche (1952), na que están presentes os seus mundos oníricos, o gusto pola maxia e todo o esotérico e as querencias polo misterioso.

A parte das fotografías, os deseños e as pinturas das oito artistas escolmadas por Victoria Combalía, na galería Mayoral pódese contemplar o gran cartel que o grupo ADLAN confeccionou para promocionar a Exposición Logicofobista de 1936, na que participaron Maruxa Mallo e Remedios Varo. O cartel foi préstado polo MNAC. Esta exposición logicofobista está considerada como a mostra colectiva máis importante do surrealismo español, e nela expuxéronse 39 obras, entre pintura y escultura. Participaron, entre outros, en pintura: Artur Carbonell, Esteban Francés, A. Gamboa-Rothwons, Joan Massanet, Maruxa Mallo, Angel Planells, Remedios Varo e Juan Ismael; e en escultura: Angel Ferrant, Ramón Marinel.lo ou Jaume Sans.

Esta interesante e necesaria exposición Mujeres surrealistas y su conexión con Cataluña virá seguida por outra sobre a mesma temática organizada polo Museo Picasso de Málaga para o mes de outubro, e que levará por título Somos plenamente libres. Las mujeres y el surrealismo. Segundo informa o propio museo a mostra contará con obras de Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Germaine Dulac, Leonor Fini, Valentine Hugo, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Maruja Mallo, Lee Miller, Nadja, Meret Oppenheim, Kay Sage, Ángeles Santos, Dorothea Tanning ou Remedios Varo, entre outras. Un argumento de peso máis para visitar Málaga este outono.

EXPOSICIÓN: Mujeres surrealistas y su conexión con Cataluña

Galería Mayoral

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Musas que inspiraron a grandes artistas

Halagamos, reconocemos y admiramos a los artistas por su obra, trayectoria y sus aportaciones, pero… ¿Quién se “oculta” en esa superficie del lienzo, en esa escultura desnuda, en los versos más tenebrosos, en la fotografía que deja al descubierto parte de su identidad, y penetró al artista hasta encontrar inspiración?

Modelos, amantes, protectoras, musas, amores… mujeres y hombres que han sido elegidos por el artista: por su belleza, su manera de posar, por poseer algo especial, por su fuerza cautivadora y seductora, y que ahora son inmortalizadas, convertidas en protagonistas de sus obras y su vida.

Os presento las 10 Musas que inspiraron a grandes artistas, de acuerdo con el periódico británico: The Guardian.

Lee Miller

Conocedora de ambos lados de la cámara, Lee Miller fue modelo y fotógrafa. A los 19 años de edad, Condé Nast, fundador de la revista Vogue, la invitó a trabajar con él convirtiéndose en la modelo más solicitada de los principales fotógrafos de la época, siendo la portada de la revista en varias ocasiones.

La cara fotogénica y cuerpo elegante de Miller, llegaron a ser la combinación favorita del fotógrafo Edgard Steichen.

Musa, colaboradora y amante de Man Ray, con quien innovó procedimientos técnicos en la fotografía, a través del artista surrealista conoció a Marx Ernst, Paul Éluard y Jean Cocteau, éste último, en 1930, solicitó a sus amistades le recomendaran una mujer que representara el papel de una estatua femenina para su película: La sangre de un poeta, siendo Lee Miller la elegida. Picasso también la representó en cinco de sus retratos.

En París, Miller conoció al pintor surrealista Roland Penrose, con quien contrajo matrimonio y, después, aparece en la obra Noche y Día, en la que su marido la retrata como una deidad flotando en el cielo.

Inteligente, corresponsal de guerra, escritora, amiga, amante de artistas y creadores, Lee Miller fue musa y esencia de varios retratos fotográficos.

Leigh Bowery

Artista de performance, travesti y diseñador fetichista, Leigh Bowery modificaba su anatomía en un acercamiento para cuestionar el entorno, utilizando su cuerpo como un objeto artístico.  

Lucien Freud, nieto de Sigmund Freud, conoció a Leigh Bowery en una actuación, vestido en traje de látex en la galería Anthony d’Offay de Londres, en 1988, posteriormente, se convirtió en su modelo y le dedicó una serie de retratos de desnudo.

Bowery es considerado una de las figuras más influyentes para artistas y diseñadores como: David LaChapelle, Johnny Rozsa, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano entre otros, y definió en Londres la cultura de la extravagancia por ser un artista pop y desenfrenado.

Sara Lownds

Bob Dylan tuvo muchas musas, desde Karen Dalton, Suze Rotolo, Joan Baez, Edie Sedgwick, Marianne Faithfull hasta su ex esposa y madre de sus cuatro hijos: Sara Lownds, fue esta última a quien le dedicó varias canciones, entre las que destacan: “Sad eyed lady of the lowlands”, “Blood on the Tracks”, “Abandoned love” y “Sara”, tema que lleva el nombre de la musa, entre otras.

Renée Perle

Renée Perle, modelo de origen rumano, cautivó al fotógrafo y pintor francés Jacques Henri Lartigue, quien la retrató con elegancia y estilo resaltando el misterio de sus profundos ojos.

“Alrededor de ella, veo un halo de magia”.

Fue su primera musa y también su amante, con ella compartió largos viajes por Cannes y Biarritz.

Renée Perle se convirtió en la inspiración para una colección del diseñador de moda John Galliano.

Maud Gonne

Revolucionaria irlandesa, feminista y actriz, Maud Gonne fue el gran amor no correspondido y fuente de inspiración del poeta y dramaturgo William Butler Yeats.

Se conocieron en 1889 y vivieron una historia de gran pasión; sin embargo, ella rechazó su propuesta de matrimonio negándose, con ello, a corresponderle sentimentalmente. William, el ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1923, le dedicó varios versos a Maud Gonne.

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud, el enfant terrible (niño terrible) de las letras francesas y una de las más influyentes figuras de la literatura moderna, ha sido fuente de inspiración para muchos artistas del siglo XX, entre los que destacan: Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg y Jim Morrison.

Rimbaud influyó profundamente en Patti Smith, cantante y poeta punk estadounidense, quien asemejó su estilo para crear una combinación entre el rock y la poesía. La cantante cuenta en su discografía con numerosos temas inspirados por la figura del poeta.

Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve, ícono mundial y actriz francesa, fue la musa de Luis Buñuel, quien la inmortalizó en Belle de jour y le mereció por ello el Premio César.

Durante más de 30 años fue la cara y estímulo de Yves Saint Laurent.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald publicó una novela autobiográfica, Save me the Waltz, y fue reconocida por inspirar a muchas heroínas que nacieron de la pluma de su marido: F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“No sé si Zelda y yo somos reales o si somos personajes de una de mis propias novelas”.

Como un merecido homenaje, Shigeru Miyamoto nombró a uno de sus videojuegos: The legend of Zelda.

 Gala Dalí

A los veinte años, Gala Dalí era amante, esposa y musa del poeta Paul Eluard, convirtiéndose en una figura importante del movimiento surrealista que inspiró a artistas como Louis Aragon, André Breton y Max Ernst.

Esposa y musa de Salvador Dalí, 10 años menor que ella, Gala, cuyo verdadero nombre era Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, fue una mujer misteriosa y con gran intuición: supo reconocer al genio artístico y creador a lo largo de su vida. Según palabras de Dalí, Gala llegó a “salvarle de la locura”, inspirando muchos de sus cuadros.

A pesar de sus muchas aventuras amorosas y relaciones con numerosos intelectuales y artistas, Dalí llegó a retratarla como la “Santísima Virgen”, además de representarla en varias pinturas como figura religiosa.

Alice Pleasance Liddell

Charles Dodgson, conocido en la literatura bajo el seudónimo de Lewis Carroll, se inspiró en Alice Pleasance Liddell, hija de un matrimonio de amigos, quien a la edad de 10 años fuera su musa y lo inspirara a escribir su famoso libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas.

Todo inició el 4 de julio de 1862, cuando Alice y sus hermanas disfrutaban de una placentera comida y conversación en la que Lewis Carroll inventaba historias para entretener a las niñas.

Charles Dodgson fotografió a Alice Pleasance Liddell en muchas ocasiones. El retrato más famoso: la niña representada como mendigo, combinando la fantasía y la fragilidad. Con esta amistad, o enamoramiento, hacia Alice, dio origen Alicia en el país de las maravillas.

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French Shoegaze, Dream Pop & Noise Pop, a quick guide, Vol. 2

In our Volume 1 you discovered / revisited Welcome to Julian (90’s), Dead Horse One, Stuck in the Sound, Venera 4, Soon she Said, Automatic Fiction, Candelabre (see our collaboration) and the Sigh (90’s).

You are here again for a other musical treat, as we continue to introduce you to some of the fantastic bands that France has (had) in our favorite genres. This second volume, like the ones to follow, includes past, present, big and small bands in no particular order.

First a big thank you to Elisabeth (Kill the Moose), Margot (Tapeworms), Michel (Lucie Vacarme), Evol (Dead & Nothing Collective), Yann (Marble Arch), Pierre (Dead Mantra) and their bandmates for taking the time to ensure that their band’s information was accurate.

LUCIE VACARME (90’s)

Lucie Vacarme, from Toulouse, is one of the main and most influential French Shoegaze (called ‘Noisy Pop’ then) band of the 90’s. This the first recorded musical experience of Michel Cloup, known for having worked in one of the major bands of the French scene of the 90s, Diabologum. They disbanded in 1993.

The band was known for their saturated and hazy sound, at the limit of the audible, especially in concert (those of Toulouse and Bordeaux in the first part of Lush were known to have caused tinnitus).

Despite the support of Bernard Lenoir (the French Equivalent of John Peel), Lucie Vacarme did not break through.

All readers of ‘Les Inrocks’ knew the band even if it was not easy to get their CD’s. I for one had the CD’s copied on tape as I could not get the CD proper (always out of stock when I looked). Unfortunately, I have lost the tape since unfortunately.

The band had more influence on the limited ‘Noisy Pop’ French musical scene as the time that they think. Many bands (my band Smiling Marianne, The Sigh, …) knew Lucie Vacarme’s music and we were inspired by some of it, if only to know that French bands could make such great music. Milkyway was to our opinion one of the best Shoegaze album around. Thanks guys.

There is a little story as Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) featured on the band’s album, as detailed in Michel Cloup’s interview in ‘Soul Kitchen’

“We sent our first EP to Thurston Moore. He sent us a postcard back. We had suggested to Kim, at the time when they recorded ‘Dirty’ to make a featuring on our song "Kelly Kiss". She did it over the phone with a very bad sound and accent. Fortunately, we wrote her name on the booklet and people were able to know she featured”.

One of their songs, ‘Souffle incandescent’ features on DKFM ‘Shoegaze classics and rarities vol2’ that can be found here on Mixcloud.

The band’s lineup was:

David Amsellem : guitar, voice

Michel Cloup : guitar

Patrice Bellanti : bass

Valery Lorenzo : drums

The music work is as follows:

1990: Metalvox, EP

1992: Milkyway , Album

1993: Audioscope, EP

Some of the songs we love:

ALCEST

The presentation of the band on Wikipedia tells us that Alcest is a French Post-Metal band from Bagnols-sur-Cèze, founded and led by Neige (Stéphane Paut). It started in 2000 as a Black Metal solo project by Neige, soon a trio, but following the release of their first demo in 2001, band members Aegnor and Argoth left the band, leaving Neige as the sole member.

In 2009 drummer Winterhalter from Les Discrets (and formerly Peste Noire) joined Alcest's line-up, after eight years with Neige as the sole full-time member.

Since its creation, Alcest has released five studio albums and a number of EPs and split releases. Their fourth album, 2014's Shelter, marked a dramatic shift towards a distinctly Shoegaze sound, however their latest album Kodama marks a partial return to their earlier Blackgaze sound. The band are widely credited with pioneering the Blackgaze/Post-Black metal genre, particularly through their EP ‘Le Secret’ released in 2005.

Alcest's fourth effort, entitled ‘Shelter’, was released on January 17, 2014 via Prophecy Productions. It features a guest appearance by Neil Halstead (Slowdive). Stylistically the album is a radical departure for the band, dropping all traces of metal from their sound and fully committing to the Shoegaze side of their sound. Neige later said in an interview that

"We are proud of it, but I think it was maybe a bit too influenced by other things. I really was obsessed with Slowdive at that time. Shelter still sounds very ‘Alcest’, but maybe not as much as the other records.”

On January 22, 2019, the band announced that they would start recording their next studio album the following day.

The current line-up is:

Neige – lead vocals, guitars, keyboards (2000–present), drums (2000–2009), bass (2001–present)

Winterhalter – drums, percussion (2009–present)

The current live musicians are:

Zero – guitar, backing vocals (2010–present)

Indria Saray – bass (2010–present)

The music work to date is:

2005: Le Secret (2005, re-recorded version in 2011) EP

2007: Souvenirs d'un autre monde, Album

2010: Écailles de Lune, Album

2012: Les Voyages de l'Âme, Album; BBC live session

2014: Shelter, Album

2016: Kodama, Album

2019: Spiritual instinct, Album

Some of the songs we love:

NøTHING COLLECTIVE

The Nøthing Collective is a Collective of like-minded French bands within the Shoegaze / Noise Pop / Altrock / Dreampop genres. They include an extensive lineup of some of the best current French artists.

They present themselves as follows:

“No matter where, no matter who and no matter how. What matters is the sound. What brings us together is the desire to have one. What binds us is the will to defend it. What we are passionate about is the desire to reveal it to you.”

The bands part of the collective so far are: A V G V S T, Future, Dead, Dead Horse One (see our Volume 1), Marble Arch (see below in this guide), Maria False, Saintes, Seahorse Hunter, Still Charon, Venera 4 (see our Volume 1), Beat Mark, Cavale Blanche, Des Roses, Giirls's facebook, Hermetic Delight, Mara, The name of the band, San Carol, Shadow Motel, Soft Blonde, Volage, Tapeworrm (see below in this guide), La Houle, T/O, Bank Myna, Good morning TV, Big Wool, Soon She Said (see our Volume 1), Brace! Brace!, Son of Fonos, That Green, The same old Band, Boy Head, Soon, Beat Mark, Boreal Wood, Maara, My lovely underground, Shadow Motel, San Carol,

The compilations that include the bands above to date are:

2013: We want nøthing more than nøthing #1

2014: Songs from Nøthing #2

2015:nøthing #03, nothing #4

2018: nøthing #05

There are too many songs and bands to choose from and we invite you to look / listen to their Bandcamp page and enjoy the quality and variety is contains.

Needless to say, Nøthing Collective was one of our main resources to source great bands for this Guide. More bands form the Collective will be included in the next volumes of this guide.

  MARBLE ARCH

As stated on the band’s social media, “Like the white marble monument -located on the West end of Oxford Street- from which the group borrowed its name, Marble Arch was cut for triumph. Having perfectly digested Shoegaze and Dream Pop's secrets, their music has been oriented toward childhood and experimentation.

After the first DIY record, Yann Le Ravazet had some time to think about the musical tone and sounds of his new record. He didn’t want it to be labelled Shoegaze nor Dream Pop. As a matter of fact, we’d be more likely to hear reverberated pop (Remeniscence), saturated pop (the infectious song “I am on My Way”), nostalgic pop (Moonstruck), synthetic pop (Instant Love) or even contemplative pop (Gold).”

The band has indeed evolved between the first and second album, though still into the music world of reverberation.

Les inrockuptibles (the French NME) did a very good interview of the front man from which this is extracted:

"In 2014, we discovered Yann Le Razavet with 'The Bloom Of Division', album entirely designed by the light of his bedside lamp. Under the name of Marble Arch, the young musician flew far away from the noisy shoegaze of his first band, Maria False, and delivered many of titles full of foggy nostalgia and twilight lyricism. Full of an elegance and finesse rather rare in France, 'Children Of The Slump' is without a doubt a very good record, and even when wholly mustering our critical mind, there is not much at fault."  -- Les Inrockuptibles

Band Members are:

Yann Le Razavet, vocals, guitar and keyboard

Thomas Tan, Lead guitar

Adrien Vernet, guitar, backing vocals

Thomas Beilles, Bass

Danny Kendrick, Drums

Music work to date

2013: echidna, EP

2014: The bloom of division, Album

2016: The Sand, single

2019: Children of the Slump, Album

Some of the bands’ songs we love:

KILL THE MOOSE 

Kill The Moose is an alternative rock band, strongly influenced by the British Shoegaze scene of the early 90's.

It was founded in 2015 by Elisabeth and Alex, in Nice, on the French Riviera. Kill the Moose is a concentrate of noise energy mixed with melodies that remain in the forefront. The songs are ethereal, pop and sweet, drenched in a wall of sound, full of reverb and distortion, with the beats of a deep bass and powered-up drums.

Note that the name ‘Kill The Moose’ is not a tribute to Shoegaze's British band ‘Moose’, but a reference to a Monty Python piece.

The lineup is:

Elisabeth Massena, Vocals

Alex Ornon, Guitar

Alexis Fedunizin, Bass

Nicolas Bonnet, Drums

Arthur Arsenne, Guitar

 The music work to date is:

2017: Demo #1

2018: Good Girl EP; The World Is Your Oyster EP; Contented Eye (Adorable cover); To The Moon And Back EP; Suzanne (Moose Cover)

2019: Into My Arms (Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Cover)

Some of the songs we love:

DEAD

Dead is a Coldwave / Noise / Electronic band from Rennes. Their music errs more towards the Early Cocteau Twins and The Cure (disintegration period). Their combination of synth waves and reverb guitars give a beautiful cold and dark feeling.

The band present themselves as follows:

"What more can you say about a band called DEAD that hasn’t already been made abundantly clear at first glance?

The fact that these French mercenaries of noise can conjure up such a powerfully dark aesthetic before even hitting a note is impressive, but when they finally do, they unleash a far more potent beast entirely. If DEAD aren’t already mapping out the future destruction of the planet, they’ve sure as hell written the soundtrack.

Bleak, confrontational, but with a firm command of rhythm and deep grooves, this might be the dancefloor antidote we’ve been waiting for."

The line-up is:

Berne Evol, vocals

Brice Delourmel, guitars

Bernard Marie, drum machine & keyboard

Musical work to date is

2012: Transmission, EP

2014: Verse, EP

2016: Voices, Album

2019: Dreams, EP

Some of our favorite songs from the band:

TAPEWORMS

Tapeworms is “3-piece rock band, mostly eating French fries, listening to Smash Mouth and watching Evil Dead. From Lille, they're trying their best to produce some noisy, dreamy, aggressive but kind music.”

An interview in Section 26 summarizes the band in a few words: ‘Do It Yourself’ is in the DNA of the band, which is outlined in the former student room of Theo, when they have fun with Margot covering Sparklehorse or Drop Nineteens on an online beat box, with an old cassette player as recorder. Eliott, used to play with his big brother, then started on the drums "We began to rehearse my grandmother’s attic. Tapeworms is really born at that time, fed with her pies and 90’s music. " Tapeworms has a shoegaze sound, noisy pop, immersed in the tradition of the 90's.

The band members are

Margot Magnière: Bass, Vocals

Théo Poyer: Guitar, Vocals

Eliott Poyer: Drums

The music work to date is:

2016: All Stars, EP; Tapeworms, single; macadam star, single.

2018: Everything Will Be Fine, long EP

Some of the songs we love:

DEAD MANTRA

Dead Mantra were created in 2009 in le Mans. The define their music as being “Gregorian Shoegaze”. They are part of the record label Cranes Records with Dead Horse One

The inrockuptibles give a very good overview of the band’s sound

"The maliciously saturated guitars sneak around a powerful rhythmic base. From this wall of sound, a veritable ice-cold and cavernous maelstrom, pierce the dark and delicate dark-pop melodies of The Dead Mantra. Young Manceaux, spotted by the Cranes Records label, stand as worthy French heirs of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club for swirling psychedelism and The Jesus & Mary Chain for shoegaze violence. Perfect harmony between devastating fury and sinuous writing."  -- Guilhem Denis, Inrocks

The lineup is:

Paul, guitars and vocals

Pierre Hamelin, drums

Louis, guitars

Henri, Bass

The music Work to date is:

2018: Saudade Forever, Album

2015: MXEICO Remixed

2014: Nemure, Album

2012: Split EP with Dead Horse One

2010: Path Of Confusion, EP

Some of the songs we love to discover the band:

For once we include a Music Video as ‘Mxeico’ is a genuine original piece worth watching and listening. As a warning, it contains male nudity.

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Summer Reading List? Marianne Moore’s Ideal Library

Auden, W. H.. The Double Man; Collected Shorter Poems

Blake, William. Poems.

Burke, Edmund. Speeches.

Byron. Letters.

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Cavalcanti, Guido. Donna Mi Prega.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Cressida; Canterbury Tales.

Cocteau, Jean. Poemes; Theatre; Essais critiques.

Coleridge, Samuel. Poems; Biographia Literaria.

Comtesse de Segur. Les Malheurs de Sophie.

Corbiere, Tristan. Les Amours jaunes.

Cummings, e. e.. Eimi; Poems.

Dante. The Divine Comedy; La Vita Nuova.

Donne, John. Letters; Poems.

Dumas, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetiers.

Eliot, T. S.. Poems; Plays; The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

Fabre, Jean-Henri. Souvenirs entomologiques; Littre

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary

Goldsmith, Oliver. Vicar of Wakefield; Plays; Poems.

Gregory, Horace. Criticism.

Hardy, Thomas. Poems; Tess of the d’Urbervilles; A Pair of Blue Eyes.

Hawthorne, Nathanial. Notebooks; Fiction.

Henryson, Robert. Poems and Fables.

Hopkins, Gerald Manley. Poems; Letters.

James, Henry. Prefaces; Letters; Novels.

Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the Poets.

Joyce, James. Poems; Novels; Dubliners.

Keats, John. Letters; Poems.

Lamb, Charles. Letters.

Lear, Edward. The Owl and the Pussycat.

Levin, Harry. Studies of Joyce; Stendhal; Flaubert; Balzac.

Maritain, Jacques. “Religion and the Intellectuals” (Partisan Review Symposium).

Melville, Herman. Poems; Short novels.

Moliere. Theatre.

Nash, Ogden. Poems.

Niebuhr,Reinhold. The Dilemma of Modern Man

Pascal. Pensees.

Perrault, Charles. Contes.

Perse, Saint-John. Eloges; Exil.

Plato. The Dialogues

Plutarch. Pope, Alexander. Essay on Criticism.

Potter, Beatrix. Peter Rabbit; Squirrel Nutkin.

Pound, Ezra. Translations of the Analects of Confucius; Poems.

Proust, Marcel. Maxims.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Italian Poets before Dante.

Sainte-Beuve. Portraits contemporains.

Saintsbury, George. A Short History of English Literature; The English Novel.

Seneca. Shakespeare, William. Sonnets; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet; Macbeth.

Sidney, Sir Philip. Defense of Poesie; Poems.

Smart, Christopher. Poems.

Stein, Gertrude. The Making of Americans; The Geographical History of America.

Stendhal. Le Rouge et le Noir; De l’Amour; Memoires d’un Touriste.

Stevens, Wallace. Poems; Prose commentaries.

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver; Journal.

Trollope, Anthony. Autobiography; Phineas Finn.

Valery, Paul. La Soiree avec M. Teste; Poemes; Variete; Introduction a la Methode de Leonard de Vinci.

Various: Greek Reader (Viking Press). Voltaire. Correspondance.

Wilson, Edmund. Joyce; Axel’s Castle.

Xenophon. On Hunting; Hipparchicus; On Horsemanship.