{"product_id":"the-art-of-bloomsbury-9780691049939","title":"The Art of Bloomsbury","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics  agnosticism  defining truth and goodness  and the ideas of Bertrand Russell  A. N. Whitehead  and G. E. Moore. But the Bloomsbury Group also played a prominent role in the development of modernist painting in Britain. The work of artists Vanessa Bell  Duncan Grant  Roger Fry  and their colleagues was often audacious and experimental  and proved to be one of the key influences on twentieth-century British art and design.  This catalogue  published to accompany a major international exhibition of the Bloomsbury painters originating at the Tate Gallery in London and traveling to the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Gallery  provides a new look at the visual side of a movement that is more generally known for its literary production. It traces the artists development over several decades and assesses their contribution to modernism. Catalogue entries on two hundred works  all illustrated in color  bring out the chief characteristics of Bloomsbury painting--domestic  contemplative  sensuous  and essentially pacific. These are seen in landscapes  portraits  and still lifes set in London  Sussex  and the South of France  as well as in the abstract painting and applied art that placed these artists at the forefront of the avant-garde before the First World War. Portraits of family and friends--from Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes to Aldous Huxley and Edith Sitwell--highlight the cultural and social setting of the group. Essays by leading scholars provide further insights into the works and the changing critical reaction to them  exploring friendships and relationships both within and outside of Bloomsbury  as well as the movements wider social  economic  and political background.  With beautiful illustrations and a highly accessible text  this catalogue represents a unique look at this fascinating artistic enclave. In addition to the editor  the contributors are James Beechey and Richard Morphet.  Exhibition Schedule: ?  The Tate Gallery  London  November 4  1999-January 30  2000  The Huntington Library  Art Collections  and Botanical Gardens  San Marino  California  The Yale Center for British Art  New Haven  Connecticut May 20-September 2  2000\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647861186613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691049939","price":139.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691049939.jpg?v=1781698485","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-bloomsbury-9780691049939","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}