La Sussurrata Terrace, Paros
More than a Room of One’s Own, it’s magical to have a terrace of one’s own. Because here you can have contact with nature while staying at home. Our terrace on Paros is where I am happiest.
Situated in between via Salaria and viale Regina Margherita is Villa Albani. It’s not visible from these streets save for a brief flash from Regina Margherita.
Villa Albani was built in the 1700s and was the home for many prestigious antiquities. And for this reason was of special interest to the art historian Johann Winckelmann, expert in Neoclassicism, who spent much time here.
Also of interest, it was at Villa Albani that, in 1870, the treaty with the Vatican following the Capture of Rome was signed here. The event marked the beginning of the unification of Italy, a process that took many years and many lives.
When I walk to my studio, I often pass this peek-a-boo sighting of Villa Albani. Walking around is the best way to make such discoveries.
The list of books below is quite long. However, I’m using this page as a “bookmark” for myself. To avoid buying books and to avoid using Amazon, I took the books listed on my Amazon Wishlist and searched for them on Archive.Org. And those I found on Archive are listed below. Considering that the books are provided free of charge, it is quite a savings. My Kobo died and instead of buying a new one, I invested in a tablet that costs basically the same so I can easily read the books listed below.
“…the realignment of the synapses that occurs every time we pick up a good book and start reading.” Andy Miller
FICTION:
the october horse by colleen mccullough
An admirable woman by Cohen, Arthur A
the roman spring of mrs. jones by tennesse williams
beyond black by hillary manntel
THE HANDMAID’S TALE by margaret Atwood
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Adrienne Hope by matilda hays
Stefan Zweig – Il viaggio nel passato
the hummingbird’s daughter luis urrea
THE END OF THE AFFAIR by Graham Greene
THE SEA THE SEA by Iris Murdoch
The future of nostalgia byBoym, Svetlana
THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by doris lessing
THE LITTLE STRANGER by sarah waters
a memory of violets by hazel gaynor
The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
Mrs. Hemingway, a novel by Naomi Wood
THE HEART IS A LONEY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
BIOGRAPHY:
Dawn Powell Biography by Marcelle Smith Rice
Colette biography by Robert Cottrell
Katherine Mansfield bio A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
mother of detection fiction (anna katherine green) by patricia maida
10 women of mystery by Earl F. Bargainnier
Waiting for Robert Capa by Susanna Fortes
Mistress to an Age, the life of Madame De Stael by J. Christopher Herold
Eleanor Roosevelt, a biography by cynthia harris
Talluah Bankhead autobiography
Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre di June Rose
kay boyle, author of herself by joan mellen
lola montez by jane seymour
biography of laura ingalls wilder
margaret mitchell biography
margaret mead, a life by jane howard
katherine anne porter by harold bloom
the truth about lou (Andreas-Salome) by angela von de lipper
the lady in gold (Klimt’s mistress) anna marie o’connor
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B TOKLAS by gertrude stein
HENRY JAMES by Harold Bloom
Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead
Edward Hopper : an intimate biography byLevin, Gail,
Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir by Baker, Russell
WRITING DOWN THE BONES Natalie Goldberg
BIRD BY BIRD anne lamott
ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING ray bradbury
OFF THE PAGE by carole burns
EXPLORING LITERATURE by frank madden
The writing life by Dillard, Annie
MYSTERY WRITERS AND THEIR NOVELS:
TRAVEL:
The most beautiful walk in the world : a pedestrian in Paris by Baxter, John
Perseus in the Wind by Freya Stark
(about Paris) Hemingway’s A MOVEABLE FEAST
ROME RELATED:
Stendhal – Promenades in Rome by Stendhal MP3
ART RELATED:
Art that heals : the image as medicine in Ethiopia by Mercier, Jacques
The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton
george santayana art and aesthetics
THE FAILING DISTANCE, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL IMPULSE IN JOHN RUSKIN, Jay Fellow
tO BE CATEGORIZED:
from the beast to the blonde, about fairy tales and their tellers by marina warner
Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
a fire in the mind, life of joseph campbell by stephen and robin larsen
myths to live by by joseph campbell
a companion to the victoria novel by brantlinger and thesing
hidden lives by margaret forster
Inventing herself : claiming a feminist intellectual heritage by Showalter, Elaine
one hundred names for love by diane ackermann
green thoughts, a writer in the garden by eleanor perenyi
The poet and the murderer : a true story of literary crime and the art of forgery
A secret symmetry: Sabina Spielrein between Jung and Freud by aldo carotenuto
freud’s mistress by karen mack
fair and tender ladies by lee smith
a time to be born by dawn powell
germain greer, the obstacle race
The leaves are falling even on my pyjamas.
If there ever was an example of a woman who lost herself to a man, it’s that of Dora Maar. She was an established and respected photographer when she met Picasso. But Picasso, unable to compete with her ability as a photographer, convinced her to abandon her talent to make second rate Picasso-like paintings. Initially to encourage this madness, Picasso made a painting with her that they signed as Picamaar, a combination of both their names but not of both their talents. And after Dora had given up everything of herself for Picasso, he dumped her for the young and beautiful Francoise Gilot.
All you have to do to appreciate Dora’s talents is to look at the photos she made before her involvement with Picasso. Those of a woman in water, for example, are exquisite.
Picasso’s emotional abuse left Dora traumatized and she was sent to Lacan for therapy. Lacan, ha! The man who bought Courbet’s Origins of the World only to keep it hidden under a wooden panel. No wonder Dora then rejected all earthly men. The only man she now accepted was the patriarchal God.
“Picamaar, Picamaar, Picamaar” is what a woman should chant whenever she feels that a man is trying to obliterate her being just to substitute it with his ego.
Related: Rare photographs by Dora Maar cast Picasso’s tormented muse in a new light + Pain and Painting +
The Narrative Within 