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Bell, Vanessa 1879-1961

Overview
Works: 375 works in 524 publications in 10 languages and 15,650 library holdings
Roles: Illustrator, Photographer
Classifications: nd497.b44, 759.2
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9 editions published between 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.
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14 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 516 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 316 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 286 libraries worldwide
Ingeniously mimicking the style of the leading newspapers of their day, the Stephen children--"Virginia, Vanessa, and Thoby--"present a charming and candid portrayal of the day-to-day events at the family home in London and at their holiday home in St Ives. Gossipy, playful, and at times irreverent, they record the comings and goings of a host of figures while also proffering their own fictional, poetic, and artistic creations. Virginia Woolf (1882-"1941) is one of the most important figures of the Modernist Movement; her sister Vanessa Bell (1879-"1961) was a painter and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group.
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6 editions published between and 1999 in English and held by 151 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 95 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 83 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 73 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published between and 1994 in English and held by 65 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 50 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 43 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in French and English and held by 35 libraries worldwide
Ce journal datant de 1891, 1892 et 1895, trouvé au département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de Londres, se présente comme la chronique de la vie d'une famille, celle des Stephen, nom de jeune fille de Virginia Woolf. Celle-ci, jusqu'à l'âge de 14 ans, sa soeur et son frère, y racontent dans un style élaboré et avec humour leur quotidien sur fond de bourgeoisie victorienne.
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6 editions published in in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 20 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 2010 in English and French and held by 10 libraries worldwide
 
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The art of Bloomsbury : Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant
Alternative Names
Bell, Vanessa S. 1879-1961
Bell, Vanessa Stephen
Bell, Vanessa Stephen, 1879-1961
Früherer Name Stephen, Vanessa 1879-1961
Stephen, Miss Vanessa 1879-1961
Stephen, Vanessa, 1879-1961
Vanessa Bell 1879-1961
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