Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell

Book - 2017

This accompanying publication showcases the oil paintings, photographs, ceramics, fabrics, decorative screens and works on paper of Vanessa Bell in a stunning display of her vibrant and wide-ranging talent. Long overshadowed by the complexity of her family life and romantic entanglements, the editors assess Bell in the context of her relationship with sister, Virginia Woolf, and as muse and confidant to Roger Fry and Duncan Grant, but ultimately present an intrepid artist deserving of fresh consideration.

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Subjects
Bell, Vanessa, > 1879-1961 > Exhibitions.
Women painters > England > Biography.
Bloomsbury group.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genres
Exhibition catalogs
Published
London : Philip Wilson Publishers, an imprint of I.B. Taurus & Co., Ltd 2017.
Language
English
Other Authors
Vanessa Bell, 1879-1961 (-), Sarah Milroy (author), Ian Dejardin (writer of preface), Julian Bell, 1952-, Grace Brockington, 1976-, Darren Clarke, Hana Leaper, Regina Marler, 1964-, Christopher Reed, 1961-, Richard Shone, Frances Spalding, 1950-, Corin Sworn, 1976-
Item Description
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Vanessa Bell", held at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 8 February-4 June 2017.
Physical Description
202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781781300596
9781781300510
  • Some rough eloquence / Sarah Milroy
  • Between London and Paris / Hana Leaper
  • Among friends : Vanessa, Virginia and the modern portrait / Frances Spalding
  • Design and experimentation : a moment in abstraction / Grace Brockington
  • Still life : love, actually / Regina Marler
  • At home : domestic modernism / Christopher Reed
  • Landscape.
  • The first winter / Darren Clarke ;
  • Blue & green / Virginia Woolf ;
  • Landscapes near and far / Julian Bell
  • Pictures of women.
  • A conversation / Corin Sworn ;
  • Vanessa Bell's late self-portraits / Richard Shone
  • Legacy / photographs by Patti Smith.
Review by Library Journal Review

Painter and designer Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was the most important female artist at the center of the Bloomsbury Group-artists, writers, and intellectuals who met beginning in 1905 to support one another's creative endeavors, at Bell's and her sister Virginia Woolf's house in London. As a painter, Bell's work reflected the trends in modernism she culled from French postimpressionists such as Henri Matisse, German expressionists, and others. Using color and form to express her singular vision of nature and life, Bell flourished as an artist during motherhood, celebrating the domestic through her paintings of interiors, still lifes, portraits of friends, and landscapes in and around the house she shared in the Sussex countryside with husband Clive Bell and fellow artist and lover Duncan Grant. This book is the catalog of an exhibition at England's Dulwich Picture Gallery and is divided by the subjects of Bell's work, with essays contributed by scholars. VERDICT With beautiful color reproductions and a readable text, this book is recommended for anyone interested in Bell or the artists of the Bloomsbury Group.-Sandra Rothenberg, Framingham State Univ. Lib., MA © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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