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Constable seen afresh Forget the young British artists - the hot show in Paris this autumn is a Constable retrospective, curated by Lucian Freud. MICHAEL GLOVER reports
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Is it even possible to look at the work of John Constable,
England's best known landscape painter, without seeing in the mind's
eye bad reproductions of The Hay Wain? In 1991 the Tate Gallery
staged a massive, academically exhaustive retrospective devoted to
the theme of Constable the landscape painter. It was not as
successful as was hoped. Could this have been because he has always
been too much with us? That there is no surprise any more, nothing to
be discovered about him that we don't think we know already?
It was, in part, as a response to that somewhat blinkered, though
enormously ...
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An archaeomythological investigation of the Gorgon.
Magazine article from: ReVision
; ...increasingly dominant. The essence of the "new religion," according to Harrison, was the belief that man, as hero, could become god (1955...heroes was to kill these "earth-born bogeys" again and again. As Jane Ellen Harrison uneq
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Every knowledge has an end: the cultural production of the educated woman.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...Finally, I show how first-generation Cambridge students Mary Paley Marshall and Jane Ellen Harrison produced their own positions as educated women, Harrison even theorizing ways of knowing that feminist scholars in our own day celebrate under...
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Invisible Green II.(the value of poetry)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review
; ...poetry, we are moved to action brightly by action. Jane Ellen Harrison, in her passion for sourcework, evinced the actions...matter. "The artist is always also a man," and as Harrison's beautifully emphatic prepositions--"by...
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The strange case of D. S. Mirsky.(D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939 )
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...circles. Among the writers he got to know in London were T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and Jane Ellen Harrison, as well as Leonard and Virginia Woolf and other luminaries of the Bloomsbury group. He lectured at London University...
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The lost girls; Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...attracted curious and insightful work by the neglected Mary Webb and Mary Butts as well as the intrepid archeologist Jane Ellen Harrison. The result both expands and explodes myths and brings some astounding talent back from the dead. ([c]20072005...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Sunday Schools, 1811; George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, fifth Earl of Carnarvon, Egyptologist, 1923; Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar and archaeologist, 1928; Vincent Millie Youmans, composer, 1946; Douglas MacArthur, general, 1964...
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Review of Inanna: Lady of the Largest Heart
Magazine article from: Femspec
; ...Stone and Charlene Spretnak drew from myth, folklore and imagination, as well as from classical research done by Jane Ellen Harrison, and revisioning of the goddess by Robert Graves. Numerous feminist writers have revised male-authored versions...
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Review of In the Footsteps of the Goddess
Magazine article from: Femspec
; ...way. Many feminist scholars were less willing to throw the feminist baby out with the patriarchal bath water. Jane Ellen Harrison and Marijja Gimbutas (among many others) posited European culture as an overlayer covering the woman-valuing...
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Victorian Sexual Dissidence.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...less-known but significant female figures such as the couple who comprise 'Michael Field' and the classicist Jane Ellen Harrison. This is a fresh and lively piece and one does not have to subscribe to Prins's slightly strained argument for...
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Mothers and sons and Russian literature *.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies
; ...honour of another woman who, among many other things, has a claim to have been the mother of Cambridge Russian: Jane Ellen Harrison (1860-1928). Like Elizabeth Hill, she had no biological sons, but she did have numerous sons in spirit...
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