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Art and Photographic History French

A fascinating interaction

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Psychoanalysis

An aspect of narcissism?

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Art and Photographic History German Matters

Marvellous Marc

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German Matters Literature politics

Paris Undercover (book review)

Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship and Betrayal (2025, Ballentine) by Matthew Goodman. Two single women, one an American, the other a Brit living in Paris, both caught up in occupied France during the Second World War. They were part of a network getting soldiers out of France, and they paid dearly for […]

Paris Undercover (book review)
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What do you think?!×1

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Classics Literature Poetry Psychoanalysis

Lord Tennyson’s Loss and Restitution

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Literature Poetry

Portraits de la vie sauvageonne ( XVII ) et ( XVIII ) / Photos de Francine Hamelin & Textes de Barbara Auzou

Et Francine Hamelin c’est ici on va ivre toujours vers une autre naissance dont l’origine et le sens portent les gants blancs du soleil on veut étreindre le corps d’une beauté sans appui qui est un hymne et une totalité et on se dresse tremblant comme le premier arbre le premier épi devant la brûlure […]

Portraits de la vie sauvageonne ( XVII ) et ( XVIII ) / Photos de Francine Hamelin & Textes de Barbara Auzou
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Literature Poetry

Meditations in a Green Shade

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Art and Photographic History Penwith St Ives

Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour

Something a little different from me today – another post in an occasional series of pieces about the art books I’ve accumulated over the past few years, mostly from shows I’ve visited in London and the South East. One of my current reading aims is to actually sit down and read some of these books, […]

Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
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Art and Photographic History Uncategorized

En ce moment à Paris