Vanessa Bell - Softcover

Ian A.C. Dejardin (Editor); Sarah Milroy (Editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781300518 ISBN 13: 9781781300510

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) has been known as the still, quiet centre around which the Bloomsbury Group revolved, renowned for her beauty, her complex romantic entanglements and, later, her domestic gravitas – and as the sister of Virginia Woolf. But Bell was also one of the most advanced British artists of her time, with her own distinctive vision, boldly interpreting new ideas about art which were brewing in France and beyond.

This publication beautifully showcases Bell’s pioneering oil paintings, photographs, ceramics, fabrics, decorative screens and works on paper in a revelatory affirmation of her vibrant and wideranging talent. Including more than 180 colour plates, Vanessa Bell is a definitive record of Bell’s accomplishments, enhanced with photography of Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse that she occupied with creative flair alongside Duncan Grant and the rest of her unconventional family. With sections devoted to portraiture, landscape, still life, design, domestic scenes and female subjects, the book gathers together a rich chorus of voices – from renowned Bloomsbury scholars to emerging experts – delivering a fresh view of an intrepid modern artist seen clearly on her own terms at last.

About this title

About the Author

<b>Sarah Milroy</b> is the former editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine and a co-founder of the Canadian Art Foundation. From 2001 to 2010, she served as chief art critic of the Globe and Mail. Sarah co-curated <i>From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia</i> with Ian AC Dejardin in 2015.<br/><br/><b>Ian AC Dejardin</b> is Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. He has previously curated the Painting Canada series: <i>Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven</i> (2011) and <i>From the Forest to the Sea</i> (as above) with Sarah Milroy.

From the Back Cover

In Spring 2017 Dulwich Picture Gallery will present the first major museum exhibition devoted to the work of British female modernist painter Vanessa Bell (1879-1961).

Edition details

• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781300518
• ISBN 13: 9781781300510
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Ian A.C. Dejardin, Sarah Milroy