A Cézanne in the hedge and other memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury /

A Cézanne in the hedge and other memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:University of Chicago Press paperback.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993, c1992.
Description:191 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- West Firle.
Bell, Vanessa, -- 1879-1961 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- West Firle.
Fry, Roger, -- 1866-1934 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- West Firle.
Bell, Vanessa, -- 1879-1961.
Fry, Roger, -- 1866-1934.
Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941.
Charleston Farmhouse (West Firle, England) -- History.
Charleston Farmhouse (West Firle, England)
Arts, English -- England -- West Firle.
Arts, English.
Bloomsbury group.
Homes.
Intellectual life.
Bloomsbury group.
West Firle (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
West Firle (England) -- Biography.
England -- West Firle.
Biography.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7910842
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Other authors / contributors:Lee, Hugh.
ISBN:0226470040 (paper)
9780226470047 (paper)
Notes:"First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Collins & Brown Limited"--T.p. verso.
Summary:The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, the home of Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. A Cezanne in the Hedge brings together firsthand reminiscences of Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativity - and eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicolson are interspersed with appraisals of the work of Bloomsbury members such as Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf and their contribution to twentieth-century British art and thought. The book ends with a previously unpublished spoofpiece by Virginia Woolf entitled "A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond." It was at the suggestion of Virginia Woolf that the painter Vanessa Bell, her sister, moved to Charleston in 1918 with her two sons and the painter Duncan Grant and writer David Garnett. Frequently visited by Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, and Lytton Strachey. Charleston soon became a focus for writers and painters of the Bloomsbury circle and remained a place of continuing creative activity until Duncan Grant's death in 1978. Today the house offers the only surviving example of the domestic decorative art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and stands as a monument to a way of life.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

A study of the Bloomsbury luminaries who gathered in the 1930s and '40s at Charleston, a farmhouse in Sussex. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Library Journal Review

This collection of writings is divided into three sections, furnishing memories of the Bloomsbury painters, the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and Charleston, the Bloomsbury home of Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. The brief writings are mostly reminiscences by offspring of some of the main figures and commentaries by various art historians and scholars. No critical or analytical essays are provided, and the continuity suffers somewhat from all the different angles--childhood memories juxtaposed with observations in the aesthetic of Roger Fry. Notable is an amusing and slightly macabre work written by a young Virginia Woolf that was previously unpublished. This collection will certainly appeal to Bloomsbury devotees. Recommended for comprehensive literature and art history collections.-- Janice Braun, Oakland, Cal. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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