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Category Archives: Art, Photography & Sculpture
Roundup: Ethics, Mimics and Graves
–The Minneapolis StarTribune posts a story about ethics in journalism built around a brief description of Waugh’s novel Scoop: …As serious as the news is, a few laughs can’t hurt. You’re in for a lot of laughs in the 1938 … Continue reading
Posted in Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Portraits, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Chateau Lloyd, Ford Madox Ford, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Frederick Etchells, Joseph Connolly, Kingsley Amis, Minneapolis StarTribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Critic
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A Biography and A Portrait
–Waugh scholar and EW Society member Ann Pasternak Slater has written a new book relating to a writer Waugh admired but knew only slightly. This is a biography of T S Eliot’s wife Vivien. The book is reviewed by Brian … Continue reading
Waugh-Commissioned Artist in New Book and Exhibition
An artist commissioned by Evelyn Waugh to paint a work entitled The Pleasures of Travel 1951 is about to receive new critical attention. Thus is Richard Eurich who painted the work for Waugh to accompany two Victorian works with a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged Country Life, Richard Eurich
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Brideshead and Loving (More)
Duncan McLaren has just posted an interesting comparison between the two 1945 novels: Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Henry Green’s Loving. This is quite different from the shorter Daily Telegraph article reported in a previous post. Duncan presents the comparison as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Henry Green, Robert Byron
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Waugh and Saint Sophia
A story by Dr Binoy Kampmark, Selwyn College, Cambridge, about the reconversion of the Saint Sophia cathedral in Istanbul from a museum to a mosque opens with this quote from Evelyn Waugh: When the caustic Evelyn Waugh visited the majestic … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Labels
Tagged Dr Binoy Kampmark, Saint Sophia Cathedral, Turkey
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4th of July Roundup
–Duncan McLaren has added a coda to his recent posting about Waugh’s friendship (if that’s the right word) with Cyril Connolly. Duncan’s article is entitled “Cyril in Full Flow” and is based on a visit Cyril made to Berlin in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Art UK, Atwoodsmagazine.com, Catholic Herald, Cyril Connolly, Duncan McLaren, Voice of the Southwest
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Bright Younger People
In yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, Toby Young writes about his days at Oxford in the 1980s, energized to do so by a new book out later this week by Dafydd Jones. This is entitled Oxford, The Last Hurrah. The US … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs
Tagged Boris Johnson, Dafydd Jones, Daily Mail, Toby Young
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Waugh in Iberia
The Lisbon paper Diario de Noticias has begun the publication of a long article by Antonio Arauja entitled “Uma educação sentimental”. The paper is published weekly and the story’s first installment was printed in last week’s edition. It is essentially … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Antonio Arauja, Diario de Noticias, La Opinion de Malaga, Lisbon, Seville
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Stephen Tennant: Underachieving Novelist
The publicity surrounding the shuttered Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (see earlier posts) has apparently stirred up interest in Beaton’s friend and sometime collaborator Stephen Tennant. The Paris Review has posted an article reviewing Tennant’s career, with … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, Photographs, Portraits
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, The Spectator
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Cecil Beaton Exhibit @ NPG (More)
–The curator of the National Potrait Gallery’s Cecil Beaton exhibit (Robin Muir) has posted several photos (some with his comments) of the exhibit. There is one on Instagram showing Henry Lamb’s portraits of Evelyn Waugh and Cecil Beaton hanging next … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Lectures, London, Newspapers, Photographs, Portraits
Tagged Cecil Beaton, National Portrait Gallery, Robin Muir, Vogue
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