Description
| Product ID: | 9781788318334 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Vanessa Bell |
| Subtitle: | Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist |
| Authors: | Author: Frances Spalding |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Paintings and painting, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts & entertainment |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet until this authorised biography was written, she largely remained a silent and inscrutable figure. Tantalising glimpses of her life appeared mainly in her sister, Virginia Woolf''s, letters, diaries and biography. Frances Spalding here draws upon a mass of unpublished documents to reveal Bell''s extraordinary achievements in both her art and her life. She recounts in vivid detail how Bell''s move into the Bloomsbury Group and her exposure to Paris and the radical art of the Post-Impressionists ran parrallel with an increasingly unorthodox personal life that spun in convoluted threads between her marriage to Clive Bell, her affair with Roger Fry, her friendship with Duncan Grant and relationship with her sister. The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell’s life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was often the core figure around which the disparate individuals of the movement revolved. Her art and designs – so often overshadowed by her sister Virginia Woolf’s writings and fame and by the interest in her own unconventional life – made a significant contribution to the history of the Bloomsbury Group. Yet, until this authorised biography was written, she has remained a largely silent and enigmatic figure. In this captivating account, acclaimed art historian and biographer Frances Spalding restores Bell to the heart of the Bloomsbury Group, illuminating an exceptional life and the free-spirited circle among which she lived. |
| Imprint Name: | Tauris Parke |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-12-13 |