A Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury
Title | A Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Lee |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1993-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780226470047 |
The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, home to Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. A Cézanne in the Hedge brings together thirty firsthand reminiscences of the Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativity—and eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicholson are interspersed with appraisals of the work of Bloomsbury members such as Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf and of their contribution to twentieth-century British art and thought. The finale is a childhood spoof written by Virginia Woolf entitled "A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond."
A Cezanne in the Hedge
Title | A Cezanne in the Hedge PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Cézanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury
Title | A Cézanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Art, British |
ISBN | 9781855851047 |
The Bloomsbury Group has long preoccupied writers, critics and the general public alike, and for many years Charleston in Sussex, the home of artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, was its focal point. This book contains a compilation of articles originally commissioned for The Charleston Newsletter, and offers an evocation of the extraordinary creative atmosphere that prevailed at Charleston and in Bloomsbury.
Dynamic Form
Title | Dynamic Form PDF eBook |
Author | Cara L. Lewis |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2020-07-15 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1501749188 |
Dynamic Form traces how intermedial experiments shape modernist texts from 1900 to 1950. Considering literature alongside painting, sculpture, photography, and film, Cara Lewis examines how these arts inflect narrative movement, contribute to plot events, and configure poetry and memoir. As forms and formal theories cross from one artistic realm to another and back again, modernism shows its obsession with form—and even at times becomes a formalism itself—but as Lewis writes, that form is far more dynamic than we have given it credit for. Form fulfills such various functions that we cannot characterize it as a mere container for content or matter, nor can we consign it to ignominy opposite historicism or political commitment. As a structure or scheme that enables action, form in modernism can be plastic, protean, or even fragile, and works by Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Evelyn Waugh, and Gertrude Stein demonstrate the range of form's operations. Revising three major formal paradigms—spatial form, pure form, and formlessness—and recasting the history of modernist form, this book proposes an understanding of form as a verbal category, as a kind of doing. Dynamic Form thus opens new possibilities for conversation between modernist studies and formalist studies and simultaneously promotes a capacious rethinking of the convergence between literary modernism and creative work in other media.
Charleston and Monk's House
Title | Charleston and Monk's House PDF eBook |
Author | Nuala Hancock |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2012-06-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 074866484X |
This compelling new study reveals, for the first time, through an emplaced investigation, the potential of Charleston and Monk's House to illuminate the shared histories of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
Bloomsbury Recalled
Title | Bloomsbury Recalled PDF eBook |
Author | Quentin Bell |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780231105651 |
In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people among whom he came of age. Here are Bell's candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell - Virginia Woolf's sister - Vanessa's lover, Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex. The stories of this enchanting extended family, the private lives of these public figures, have all the magic and intrigue of the best novels of the day. Bloomsbury Recalled, in the expansive storytelling tradition of the early modernists, re-creates the captivating theater of events that was Bloomsbury.
Bloomsbury Influences
Title | Bloomsbury Influences PDF eBook |
Author | E.H. Wright |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2014-06-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443862290 |
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.” —T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, 1921 Bloomsbury Influences is an interdisciplinary essay collection developed from papers given at Bath Spa University’s Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference. The volume explores the ways that 20th and 21st century art, drama, fiction and philosophy have been influenced and inspired by the work of the Bloomsbury Group and their London milieu. By comparing and contrasting the artistic, philosophical and literary works of the Bloomsbury Group with later artists, writers and thinkers, such as the Singh Twins, Harold Bloom, C. K. Stead, Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith, amongst many others, each essay examines how, in T. S. Eliot’s words, the past has been “altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past”.