Grant, Duncan 1885-1978

The art of Bloomsbury : Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant by Richard Shone ( Book )
9 editions published between 1999 and 2002 in English and held by 749 libraries worldwide
The 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 movement's wider social, economic, and political background.

Duncan Grant by Raymond Mortimer ( Book )
11 editions published between 1944 and 1948 in English and held by 270 libraries worldwide

The art of Duncan Grant by Simon Watney ( Book )
6 editions published between 1990 and 1999 in English and held by 269 libraries worldwide

Nurse Lugton's golden thimble by Virginia Woolf ( Book )
2 editions published between 1966 and 1968 in English and held by 140 libraries worldwide

Private : the erotic art of Duncan Grant, 1885-1978 by Duncan Grant ( Book )
2 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 95 libraries worldwide

Duncan Grant by Duncan Grant ( Book )
14 editions published between 1923 and 1984 in English and held by 89 libraries worldwide

A terrible day by David Garnett ( Book )
3 editions published in 1932 in English and held by 77 libraries worldwide

Bloomsbury needlepoint : with charts of designs by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell & Roger Fry by Melinda Coss ( Book )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide

Omega cuts : woodcuts and linocuts by artists associated with the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press by Jeremy Greenwood ( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 50 libraries worldwide

Duncan Grant, designer : [catalogue of] an exhibition by Duncan Grant ( Book )
4 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 24 libraries worldwide