Product Description

The Bloomsbury Group changed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. This circle of artists, writers and intellectuals, who met for discussion in London in the early twentieth century, challenged Victorian conventions and presented new models of behaviour. They recorded one another continually in both words and images, and Frances Spalding explores these portraits against a background of biographies, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #114067 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 108 pages

About the Author
Frances Spalding is an authority on Bloomsbury and has written biographies of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. She is Reader in Twentieth-Century British Art at the University of Newcastle.

Customer Reviews

intriguing
This book explores the impact of Bloomsbury personalities on each other, as well as their legacy to the twenty-first century. The author demonstrates how this network of artists, writers, lovers and patrons recorded one another obsessively in both words and images. She presents many fascinating biographies, all of which are illustrated with paintings and intimate photographs created by members of the Group. It includes previously unpublished photographs from the albums of the influential hostess and patron of the arts, Ottoline Morrell. Even for someone who was a Bloomsbury novice prior to this book, I found the stories very interesting and the pictures amazing. Definitely recommended.

Good generaly book
This is a good general book if you want an easy to read outline of the Bloomsbury group and it's members. Recommended!!!

Bloomsbury Group
A good 'starter' book into Bloomsbury - with easy to read text and good illustrations.