Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group
confronted issues that are remarkably current: international
crises, war, the value of craft in an industrialized world, women's
rights, environmental protection, and the search for the true, the
good, and the beautiful in their art and their lives. A Room of
Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collectionsexamines
the group's responses to these issues, providing a valuable mirror
on how people can address similar concerns today. A hundred years
after the Bloomsbury group was established, their story still
resonates and brings together a variety of interests across many
artistic and intellectual pursuits.
This catalog, the companion catalog to an acclaimed exhibition
organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell
University in 2008, isillustrated with full-color plates of the two
hundred exhibited works, as well as numerous color figures of
comparative works and documentary photographs. It alsofeatures
essays by several leading Bloomsbury scholars. Gretchen Holbrook
Gerzina, author of a major 1995 Carrington biography, provides a
personal overview of artistic Bloomsbury. Nancy E. Green, the
Johnson Museum curator and organizer of the exhibition, explores
the Victorian-era influence on sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa
Bell. Mark Hussey's essay discusses the cultural differences behind
how British and American audiences experience Virginia Woolf and
the Bloomsbury group. Benjamin Harvey offers "An Appreciation of
Bloomsbury's Books and Blocks." Christopher Reed presents personal
stories behind many of the prominent Bloomsbury collectors in North
America."
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