Hughes Villa drew some of her inspiration from the novella Yellow
Wall-paper (written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman) which describes the journal of a woman suffering from 'hysteria', who descends into madness after being confined by her physician husband to a wallpaper-covered room at a rented summer home.
To date, literary scholarship on "The Yellow
Wall-Paper," while voluminous, has tended to focus on the story either as a self-contained feminist critique or as a historicized protest against nineteenth-century attitudes about female sexuality, health, and labor.
Soon after she and her husband separated, Charlotte wrote "The Yellow
Wall-Paper" during a heat wave in Pasadena, Calif., in the summer of 1890.
One of the most famous doctors of the age was Sir Weir Mitchell, who also took care of Gilman for a time and who is mentioned in "The Yellow
Wall-Paper": "John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.
2) Avoid character
wall-paper - they'll probably be sick of it before you are.
Sian works with found materials, such as
wall-paper from derelict houses which she starches, irons, burns and stabs to create her work.
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wall-paper over the internet?
Among the literary works recovered a generation ago, in the widespread cultural feminist movement that fostered the reemergence of women's voices in society, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow
Wall-Paper" is undoubtedly prominent.
Following this often-cited passage from "Why I Wrote the Yellow
Wall-Paper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman states she did not intend to drive readers "crazy" with "The Yellow
Wall-Paper," but only to expose a serious and extreme lapse in medical judgment, or wisdom, regarding the "treatment of neurasthenia" (WW, 332).
artists who call their genre "cinema pop." (One name you'll recognize is Simon Fisher Turner, a collaborator of the late Derek Jarman.) The selections here are credited to bands you've never heard of, such as Tomorrow's World, Death By Chocolate, and
Wall-paper. But the songs are wonderfully familiar--at least if you grew up in the '60s and watched The Avengers, James Bond flicks, and Georgy Girl; listened to The Kinks and Petula Clark; and dressed in Mary Quant with lots of eye-liner.
Next, he brushed the back of his fake notes with
wall-paper border paste and stuck them round the base, building up a collage of cash.
Since its republication by the Feminist Press in 1973, Gilman's "The Yellow
Wall-Paper" has achieved the status of a recovered classic.