Self portrait by Isherwood. Here he has short, combed back hair and is wearing round glasses. It has a yellow colour background.
#OnThisDay in 1917 local artist James Lawrence Isherwood was born.
To mark the occasion, we are posting one of the many paintings by Isherwood that we hold in our collection. We chose this one as it is a self portrait, and feels fitting for his birthday.
#art #wigan #LocalArtist #Isherwood
Really enjoyed reading this - a substantive novel - a coda as one ages to the Berlin novels - close to the age he wrote it - the sensibility of looking back from middle age #isherwood #books
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We resume our series on Jewish novels, a novel about Berlin at the beginning of the 1930s, its decadence, its complacency, and its descent into Naziism.
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#novels
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#holocausthistory
Blow your nose, pull up your socks, and shut up. You don’t have to be a grim old stoic, either. Your life could be such fun. Now run along and enjoy yourself. And let’s try to make this a HAPPY new year.”
Christopher Isherwood diaries. #hogmanay #newyear #Isherwood #christopherisherwood
"So as we gravely bade adieu
I felt quite snubbed — and so would you.
And yet I shook him by the hand,
Impressed that he could understand
The works of those two tops I mention,
So far beyond my comprehension —"
#Auden #Isherwood
“History is giving us another chance to confront the forces that Cabaret warned us about. The question is: Will we listen this time, or will we keep laughing until the music stops?”
---Joel Grey, Cabaret (film) MC, The New York Times.
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#antifa #Isherwood #film #Nazi
Christopher Isherwood,"Adiós a Berlín". p. 240. Ed. Acantilado. #Isherwood @acantiladoeditor.bsky.social
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.” #isherwood
In Episode 724, Jacke talks to Jack Poller about his new book Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Life, a #biography of the writer of Goodbye to Berlin and other works. #books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Christopher Isherwood, Lotte Eisner, and Louise Brooks in the harder-to-find-than-it-should-be 1976 documentary MEMORIES OF BERLIN: The Twilight of Weimar Culture, by Gary Conklin. Screenshots from my own bootleg copy.
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#louisebrooks #isherwood #weimar #weimarculture #garyconklin
Christopher Isherwood by Don Bachardy. Viewed at Crocker Art Museum, 2019
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#sacramento
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Last call for tomorrow morning’s Isherwood’s Neighbourhood tour at 11:00.
Yes it’s cold but, only 2 more for this year and not back until March! Message me for details.
#Berlin #weimar #cabaret #Isherwood
