VIRGINIA WOOLF

"... that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we - I mean all human beings - are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. HAMLET OR A BEETHOVEN QUARTET IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS VAST MASS THAT WE CALL THE WORLD. BUT THERE IS NO SHAKESPEARE, THERE IS NO BEETHOVEN; CERTAINLY AND EMPHATICALLY THERE IS NO GOD; WE ARE THE WORDS; WE ARE THE MUSIC; WE ARE THE THING ITSELF. (From a "Sketch of the Past").

Saturday, March 14, 2009

QUENTIN BELL

Quite by chance I found this ceramic plate, made by Quentin Bell,

in a store in Cambridge, UK, in 2001.

A satirical view of Lydia Lopokova, who married John Maynard Keynes in 1925, much to the surprise of Venessa Bell and Virginia Woolf who, apparently, 'thought her a goose, intellectually much inferior to Maynard and themselves'. Bloomsbury gave them a hard time.

A good read about the love affair between one of the greatest dancers in Diaghilev's Russian ballet and the famous British economist, look for the book: LYDIA & MAYNARD, The letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes, edited by Polly Hill and Richard Keynes. Andre Deutsch Limited, 1989

I am wondering if the families have a collection of Quentin's plates?

Quentin Bell, writer, artist, potter; b. 19.8.1910, d. 16.12.1996