An evening with Balthus, Cathy and Heathcliff

Several Brontë alerts for today, April 15:

1. In London, as we reported before, at the Victoria and Albert Museum the exhibition Blood on Paper: The art of the book (15 April-29 June) opens:

At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer, this exhibition aims to show the extraordinary ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past. Blood on Paper will focus on new and contemporary work, and on books where the artist has been the driving force in conception and design. The past twenty years have seen outstanding work by some of the most influential and respected artists of our time. (...)
Seen together, these artists’ books show a truly astonishing inventiveness, many on display to the public for the first time. Artists represented range from Matisse, Picasso and Braque to Anselm Kiefer, Anish Kapoor and Georg Baselitz. Almost all notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have produced books, or works that refer to books: those represented will also include Balthus, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Chillida, Francesco Clemente, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long , Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and many others whose names are synonymous with art today.

The Brontë connection comes through Balthus and his illustrations for Wuthering Heights that have been featured previously on BrontëBlog and have recently been published in a Spanish edition of Emily Brontë's book by Artemisa.

Picture source.

Balthus (1908 - 2001)
'Wuthering Heights' By Emily Brontë
1993
Published by the Limited Editions Club, New York
National Art Library, V&A, pressmark: 805.AH.0011
Acquired with the help of the Friends of the National Libraries
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS,

2. A new chance to see Patricia Hruby Powell one-woman-show “An Evening with Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson.” (More information on these previous posts):

An Evening with Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson
7 p.m. Tuesday
Wright State University-Lake Campus Auditorium, 7600 Lake Campus Drive, Celina

Presented by the College Community Arts Council and funded by the Ohio Arts Council, Powell’s performance comes as part of a week-long residency, said CCAC president Sue Pittman.“We were trying to marry a couple things,” she said. “We wanted to offer an in-school residency, and we also wanted to offer a performance to our junior scholars, who are high school age. We also wanted to work with the community.”Pittman said the perfect combination came in Powell and her program. During the April 15 performance, Powell will portray each writer in their chronological order and at different parts in her life. The performance will also include reading from that writer’s body of work.
Austen, Bronte and Dickinson make interesting subjects, Pittman said, for their eccentricities as well as their roles in women’s literature.“It’s important to make people aware of these three authors,” Pittman said. “These were three authors who were really trying to get their work out when men dominated the field. They broke conventions by writing serious work and used pseudonyms to get their work out. Each is read continuously since their publication, and they’re considered some of the greatest authors of all time.” (Kate Lohnes in The Lima News)

3. A book discussion in Rome, New York:

Romance and tragedy come to the Connect With The Classics Book Discussion at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15. The group, open to the public, discusses "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte at Jervis Public Library, 613 N. Washingtom St.
No registration is required, and refreshments will be served.

Copies of the book, in many various formats, are available at the library.
Emily Bronte’s only novel appeared to mixed reviews in 1847, a year before her death at 30. In the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, and in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors of its setting, Wuthering Heights "creates a world of its own, conceived with a disregard for convention, an instinct for poetry and for the dark depths of human psychology that make it one of the greatest novels of passion ever written," said Librarian Lorie J. O’Donnell, MLS.
The movie, starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes as the tragic Cathy and Heathcliff, and based on the book, will be shown on Monday, April 21 at 6 p.m. No registration is required and popcorn and drinks will be served. (Rome Sentinel)

Categories: Alert, Art-Exhibitions, Illustrations, Talks, Theatre, Wuthering Heights