February Books
Mar. 1st, 2011 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emma_in_dreamI read two biographies of nineteenth-century artists this month - Harriet Hosmer the sculptor and F Holland Day the photographer.
The biography of Hosmer was far more interesting, perhaps because the historian put her in her context and perhaps because she was willing to explore issues for which there was no definitive evidence (such as her relationships with other women).
I would have appreciated the same thing in the life of Day - saying he was a life long bachelor who wrote passionate letters to his male friends in his youth and liked photographing young men with no clothes on, but that it is impossible to begin to say what this means is really a bit of a cop out.
Mercy David Kessler 2009
Take Ten: Stamper’s Sampler 2009
Artist’s Cafe 2009
Somerset Studio Gallery 2009
Sew Somerset 2009
Memory Lois McMaster Bujold 1996
Art Journaling 2009
Flashman and the Dragon George MacDonald Fraser 1985
Golden Fiddles Mary Grant Bruce 1928
Somerset Apprentice 2009
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927
Down Under Bill Bryson 2000
The 34th Rule Armin Shimerman and Davd R George 1999
Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F Holland Day Patricia J Fanning 2008
Shards of Honor Lois McMaster Bujold 1986
Ranters, Ravers and Rhymers: Poems by Black and Asian Poets Farrukh Dhondy (Ed) 1990
Bride of the Rat God Barbara Hambly 1994
D.A. Connie Willis 2007
Desert Cowboy Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike 2000
Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography Kate Culkin 2010
Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthology Virginia Blain 2001
Desert Dog Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike 1997
Yinti, Desert Child Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike 1992
Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia’s Future Larissa Behrendt 2003
The biography of Hosmer was far more interesting, perhaps because the historian put her in her context and perhaps because she was willing to explore issues for which there was no definitive evidence (such as her relationships with other women).
I would have appreciated the same thing in the life of Day - saying he was a life long bachelor who wrote passionate letters to his male friends in his youth and liked photographing young men with no clothes on, but that it is impossible to begin to say what this means is really a bit of a cop out.
Mercy David Kessler 2009
Take Ten: Stamper’s Sampler 2009
Artist’s Cafe 2009
Somerset Studio Gallery 2009
Sew Somerset 2009
Memory Lois McMaster Bujold 1996
Art Journaling 2009
Flashman and the Dragon George MacDonald Fraser 1985
Golden Fiddles Mary Grant Bruce 1928
Somerset Apprentice 2009
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927
Down Under Bill Bryson 2000
The 34th Rule Armin Shimerman and Davd R George 1999
Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F Holland Day Patricia J Fanning 2008
Shards of Honor Lois McMaster Bujold 1986
Ranters, Ravers and Rhymers: Poems by Black and Asian Poets Farrukh Dhondy (Ed) 1990
Bride of the Rat God Barbara Hambly 1994
D.A. Connie Willis 2007
Desert Cowboy Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike 2000
Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography Kate Culkin 2010
Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthology Virginia Blain 2001
Desert Dog Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike 1997
Yinti, Desert Child Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike 1992
Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia’s Future Larissa Behrendt 2003
