Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical
Autor Wendy Hitchmoughen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 mar 2025
Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within the Bloomsbury Group and known for her unconventional lifestyle, but her work as a painter, designer, and decorator has often been overlooked and relegated within the bombastic, male-dominated field of British modernism.
With new research, including previously unpublished letters, Wendy Hitchmough explores the ways in which Bell (1879–1961) forged new pathways as a modernist woman. Writing openly about depression and mental health at a time when the subject was stigmatised, as well as challenging taboos surrounding women’s bodies, Bell exploited the patriarchal society that oppressed her. She responded to the nudes and pastoral scenes of Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse with themes of miscarriage and motherhood. She exhibited with her partner, Duncan Grant, and comparisons between their parallel careers highlight the gender disparities that shaped her life and work.
Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical celebrates the artist’s trailblazing approach to art as well as life, her rejection of conventions, and the challenge she posed to the structures of early twentieth-century society.
Preț: 240.60 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 361
Preț estimativ în valută:
42.58€ • 49.92$ • 37.39£
42.58€ • 49.92$ • 37.39£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 19 ianuarie-02 februarie 26
Livrare express 02-08 ianuarie 26 pentru 58.73 lei
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300269215
ISBN-10: 0300269218
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 80 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 1.03 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300269218
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 80 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 1.03 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“I applaud this book for bringing to our attention the glories of Bell’s versatility, and her superb use of colour.”—Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Times (UK)
“Informative and evocative, a glimpse of a complicated life in one of the most lauded creative milieux of the 20th century. . . . The result is a success; this is a clear and clarifying look at why Vanessa Bell matters.”—Tobias Carroll, Art Newspaper
“Beautifully illustrated. . . . As the former curator of the painter’s home at Charleston, Hitchmough writes with insider knowledge, supported by an armoury of scholarship.”—Ariane Bankes, The Spectator
“A comprehensive account of the artist’s life.”—The Artist magazine
“This impressive account will surely prompt responses similar to Bell’s own reaction to Virginia’s biography of Vanessa’s former lover Roger Fry, published in 1940. Bell wrote to her sister: ‘You have brought him back to me.’”—Matthew Dennison, Country Life
“Through this cacophony of letters, connections and history, Hitchmouth gives Bell back the identity Woolf remembers her sister having. That of the person who, as a child ‘scrawl[ed] on a black door a great maze of lines, with white chalk. “When I am a famous painter—” she began, and then turned shy and rubbed it out in her capable way.’”—Alice Vincent, New Statesman
“A detailed and illuminating journey through Vanessa Bell’s artistic life.”—Elena Giovanna Fillia, Il Giornale dell’arte
“Hitchmough makes a compelling and highly readable case for Bell's importance as a pioneering modernist, design innovator and cultural leader.”—Helen Rees Leahy, Virginia Woolf Bulletin
“Informative and evocative, a glimpse of a complicated life in one of the most lauded creative milieux of the 20th century. . . . The result is a success; this is a clear and clarifying look at why Vanessa Bell matters.”—Tobias Carroll, Art Newspaper
“Beautifully illustrated. . . . As the former curator of the painter’s home at Charleston, Hitchmough writes with insider knowledge, supported by an armoury of scholarship.”—Ariane Bankes, The Spectator
“A comprehensive account of the artist’s life.”—The Artist magazine
“This impressive account will surely prompt responses similar to Bell’s own reaction to Virginia’s biography of Vanessa’s former lover Roger Fry, published in 1940. Bell wrote to her sister: ‘You have brought him back to me.’”—Matthew Dennison, Country Life
“Through this cacophony of letters, connections and history, Hitchmouth gives Bell back the identity Woolf remembers her sister having. That of the person who, as a child ‘scrawl[ed] on a black door a great maze of lines, with white chalk. “When I am a famous painter—” she began, and then turned shy and rubbed it out in her capable way.’”—Alice Vincent, New Statesman
“A detailed and illuminating journey through Vanessa Bell’s artistic life.”—Elena Giovanna Fillia, Il Giornale dell’arte
“Hitchmough makes a compelling and highly readable case for Bell's importance as a pioneering modernist, design innovator and cultural leader.”—Helen Rees Leahy, Virginia Woolf Bulletin
Notă biografică
Wendy Hitchmough is emeritus senior lecturer at the University of Sussex and was curator at the Bloomsbury artists’ home, Charleston, for over twelve years. She is author of The Bloomsbury Look.