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The newly revised and updated Charleston: A Bloomsbury House &
Garden is the definitive publication on the Bloomsbury Group's
rural outpost in the heart of the Sussex Downs. "It's absolutely
perfect...", wrote the artist Vanessa Bell when she moved to
Charleston in 1916. For fifty years, Vanessa and her fellow painter
Duncan Grant lived, loved and worked in this isolated Sussex
farmhouse, together transforming the house and garden into an
extraordinary work of art and creating a rural retreat for the
Bloomsbury group. Now, Vanessa's son, Quentin Bell, and her
granddaughter Virginia Nicholson tell the inside story of their
family home, linking it with some of the pioneering cultural
figures who spent time there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia
Woolf, the economist Maynard Keynes, the writer Lytton Strachey and
the art critic Roger Fry. Taking readers through each room of the
house - from Clive Bell's Study, the Dining Room, the Kitchen and
the Garden Room, through to individual bedrooms, the Studios and
the Library - Quentin Bell relives old memories, including having
T.S. Eliot over for a dinner party and staging plays in the Studio,
while Virginia Nicholson details the artistic techniques
(stencilling, embroidery, painting, sculpture, ceramics and more)
used to embellish and enliven the once simple farmhouse. In this
refreshed edition of the original 1997 publication, Gavin
Kingcombe's specially commissioned photographs breathe life into
the colourful interiors and garden of the Sussex farmhouse, while
updated text and captions by Virginia Nicholson capture the
evolution of Charleston as it continues to inspire a new
generation. For lovers of literature, decorative arts, and all
things Bloomsbury, Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden
offers a window onto a truly unique creative hub.
First published in 1963, The Schools of Design is a history of
English Art Education. The story of the genesis of English art
schools is one of the fierce conflicts in which private feuds
mingle with questions of principle. It is a story of administrative
chaos and open scandal in which some long-forgotten figures are
involved; others - such as Haydon, Gladstone, Alfred Stevens, Dyce,
Stafford Northcote, Etty and Henry Role - appear in a new role. In
itself this forms an entertaining study full of incident and drama.
Many of the problems that presented themselves in the 1840's are
still with us today and no one who is interested in the place of
art in our society can afford to neglect the lessons of the Schools
of Design. This book will be of interest to students of art and
history.
First published in 1967, Victorian Artists documents the painting
of the Victorian period, that is, the period between the death of
Constable and William IV in 1837, the first Post-Impressionist
painting in 1910 and the end of an epoch in British painting.
Professor Bell has given special attention to some of the
pre-Raphaelite artists, and to Sickert and the Camden Town group.
These most illuminating and diverting essays, which originated as
Slade lectures at Oxford, combined with a large collection of
illustrations, make this a unique discussion of a period whose
aesthetic influence is still widely evident. This book will be of
interest to students of art and history.
In the summer of 1923 Virginia Woolf's nephews, Quentin and Julian
Bell, started a family newspaper, The Charleston Bulletin. Quentin
decided to ask his aunt Virginia for a contribution: 'it seemed
stupid to have a real author so close at hand and not have her
contribute.' Woolf joined forces with Quentin, and from 1923 until
1927 they created fully-fledged booklets of stories and drawings
that were announced as Supplements. Written or dictated by Woolf
and illustrated by Quentin, these Supplements present a unique
collaboration between the novelist during her most prolific years
and the child-painter. In Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell not only
found a professional author and an experienced journalist, but,
above all, a close companion and conspirator who shared his
irreverence and mischievous sense of humour. The Supplements are
transcribed in full here for the first time alongside around 40 of
Bell's original illustrations. Designed to tease the adults, they
portray Bloomsbury eccentricities along with the foibles and
mishaps of the residents and visitors at Charleston. This is the
first time the Supplements have been published since they were
first written and will therefore be welcomed by fans of Woolf and
her circle.
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.
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Selected Diaries (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Quentin Bell
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A moving, perceptive and beautifully written insight into the
workings of the mind of one of the best loved and most admired
writers of the twentieth century.
Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to
whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on
public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between
January 1st, 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her
thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result
is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.
Abridged and edited by Anne Olivier Bell, the wife of Virginia
Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell.
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.
An illustrated guide to Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse where
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant provided a gathering place for the
Bloomsbury group, which included such literary and artistic
luminaries as E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia
Woolf.
As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy
with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published
in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia
Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation
of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental
breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the
Hogarth Press; her friendships with T. S. Eliot, Katherine
Mansfield and Vita Sackvill-West; her struggles to write The Waves
and The Years; and the political and personal distresses of her
last decade. Compelling, moving and entertaining, Quentin Bell's
biography was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the
Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. It is a fitting tribute to a remarkable
and complex woman, one of the greatest writers of the century.
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