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 The book ends with a previously unpublished spoofpiece by Virginia Woolf entitled "A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond."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.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Michael Holroyd
  • Introduction: Bloomsbury's Ups and Downs--Noël Annan
  • Part 1. Bloomsbury Painters Vanessa Bell
  • Duncan Grant as Stage Designer
  • Remembering Duncan andnbsp;Vanessa
  • The Omega Workshops
  • Roger Fry and his Aesthetic
  • A Look at Roger Fry
  • Durbins
  • Sickert and Bloomsbury
  • Part 2. Virginia and Vanessa Two Sisters: Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
  • Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf
  • Fry and Virginia Woolf: Pictures and Books
  • A Biographer's Dilemma: Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry
  • Leaska Vita and Virgina and Vanessa
  • Virginia and Rose
  • Came to Lunch
  • The Last Artist
  • Fitzgerald Desmond MacCarthy: A Memoir of Affection
  • Some Memories of Octavia Wilberforce
  • Part 3. Charleston Towards Charleston
  • Bell Bloomsbury Houses
  • A Cézanne in the Hedge
  • A Tale of Two Houses
  • Pictures at Charleston: Past and Present
  • Charleston Revisited
  • Life in the Kitchen and Elsewhere
  • Holidays at Charleston
  • The Restoration of Charleston
  • How it Strikes a New Yorker
  • Epilogue: A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond
  • Contributors
  • The Charleston Trust

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