In my previous post John Harvey wrote about his recent novel ‘Subject of a Portrait’, and the questions he tried to address in giving fictional life to the tangled love triangle of its central characters: John Ruskin, his wife Effie, … Continue reading
John Harvey, author of The Subject of a Portrait, a review of which I posted HERE in June, is my guest for this post. He writes about his novel exploring the tangled relationships between Millais, the subject of his portrait, Ruskin, … Continue reading
The Subject of a Portrait: a Novel by John Harvey. Polar Books, Cheltenham: 2014. Apart from being the author of three previous novels, John Harvey (not the homonymous author of the Charlie Resnick crime novels) is a distinguished academic: he’s … Continue reading
John Harvey, Coup d’Etat (Holland House Books, 2020; first published 1985) John Harvey is a renowned Cambridge academic who’s written some fascinating studies on the nature of and relationship between the visual and literary arts (see my list of links … Continue reading
John Harvey, The Plate Shop. Holland House Books, 2021. First published 1979. Holland House is an independent London publisher founded in 2012. They recently released all five of John Harvey’s novels in a ‘revisited’ set. Here at the Days there … Continue reading
John Harvey, The Poetics of Sight. Peter Lang, Bern, 2015. Paperback, 309pp. (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, 25) I have recently written here about the excellent literary-cultural studies by John Harvey of the colour black and … Continue reading
I wrote recently HERE about John Harvey’s two fascinating studies of the colour black, and HERE about his novel The Subject of a Portrait, about the love triangle involving John Ruskin, Effie Gray and the artist Millais. Clothes is part of a … Continue reading
Men in Black, Reaktion Books, London 1995 The Story of Black, Reaktion Books, London 2013 Even when brilliant, rich, powerful women have worn magnificent black in the past, they have usually needed the pretext of mourning to do so. And … Continue reading
In my previous post I described the church of St Hilary, near Penzance, and some of the artworks by the former priest’s wife Annie Walke and her fellow members of the Newlyn School that decorate the interior. First a word … Continue reading
Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), Father and Son. Penguin Modern Classics, 1970; first published 1907 The subtitle of Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son is ‘A Study of Two Temperaments’. But it’s not really a study of anything, let alone the temperaments of … Continue reading