'The beautiful, revelatory biography of Jim Ede and Kettle's Yard
that we have been waiting for. I loved it.' Edmund de Waal The
lives of Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard artists represent a
thrilling tipping point in twentieth-century modernism: a new
guard, a new way of making and seeing, and a new way of living with
art. The artists Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry Moore,
Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, David Jones, Alfred Wallis and
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska were not a set like the Bloomsbury Set or
Ravilious and his friends. But Jim Ede recognised in each of the
artists he championed something common and kindred, some quality of
light and life and line. Jim Ede is the figure who unites them. His
vision continues to influence the way we understand art and modern
living. He was a man of extraordinary energies: a collector,
dealer, fixer, critic and, above all, friend to artists. For Ede,
works of art were friends and art could be found wherever you
looked - in a pebble, feather or seedhead. Art lived and a life
without art, beauty, friendship and creativity was a life not worth
living. Art was not for galleries alone and it certainly wasn't
only for the rich. At Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, he opened his
home and his collection to all comers. He showed generations of
visitors that learning to look could be a whole new way of life. In
this captivating, lively and deeply researched biography, Laura
Freeman reveals the life of a man who helped shape
twentieth-century British art, and sheds new light on the rare
beauty and character of his greatest creation, Kettle's Yard.
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