A Bloomsbury Canvas

by Bradshaw, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780853318392
• ISBN10: 0853318395
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Independent Pub Group

Summary

A Bloomsbury Canvas brings together a selection of short essays from the leading commentators on the Bloomsbury Group - the association of artists and writers centred around the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell which had an important influence on cultural and intellectual life in Britain during the early decades of the twentieth century.Essayists include Hermione Lee, noted biographer of Virginia Woolf; art historians Richard Shone and Frances Spalding; Nigel Nicolson, author of Portrait of a Marriage (a groundbreaking study of his parents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson); and the last survivors of those closely connected to the Bloomsbury Group: Frances Partridge, Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett.The essays are edited and introduced by Tony Bradshaw, author of The Bloomsbury Artists: Prints and Book Design (Scolar Press 1999) and owner of The Bloomsbury Workshop, the internationally renowned art gallery and bookshop specializing in the work of the Group. Representing what is best and typical of Bloomsbury art, the book is excitingly illustrated with previously unpublished works.

Author Biography

Tony Bradshaw is the owner of The Bloomsbury Workshop, London, a gallery and bookshop specialising in the art and literature of the Bloomsbury Group

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(4)
Tony Bradshaw
Plums of Memory	15	(4)
Angelica Garnett
Dora Carrington	19	(4)
Frances Partridge
Duncan Grant: Designer and Decorator	23	(4)
Richard Shone
Voyages	27	(4)
Angelica Garnett
Roger Fry as Painter	31	(6)
Frances Spalding
Remembering Quentin	37	(2)
Julian Bell
Vanessa Bell: A Personal Impression	39	(4)
Frances Partridge
The Hogarth Press	43	(4)
Tony Bradshaw
Images of Virginia Woolf	47	(4)
Hermione Lee
Maynard Keynes and The Creative Arts	51	(4)
Craufurd Goodwin
Frances: The Boswell of Bloomsbury	55	(4)
Nigel Nicolson
Omega	59	(4)
Quentin Bell
Vanessa Bell	63	(6)
Anne Olivier Bell
The Pond	69	(6)
Angelica Garnett
The Myths and Fantasies of Duncan Grant	75	(2)
Richard Shone
The Art of Dora Carrington	77	(4)
Jane Hill
Janie Bussy	81	(4)
Angelica Garnett
Vanessa Bell: Experiences of Paris Cafes	85	(4)
James Beechey
Quentin, Julian and Cressida	89	(4)
Virginia Nicholson
Clive Bell	93	(4)
S.P. Rosenbaum
Behind the Canvas	97	(4)
Henrietta Garnett
Bloomsbury: Desing and Decoration	101	(5)
James Beechey
Notes on Contributors	106	(2)
Editor's Acknowledgements	108	(1)
List of Illustrations	109