The book traces Bell’s explorations into the Italian Renaissance, her encounters with the European avant-garde, including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, and her leading role in social and cultural activities such as the Friday Club, a group of artists founded in 1905, as well as the design enterprise Omega Workshops.

It also looks at the key contributions Bell made towards the development of abstract art, creating what friend and art critic Roger Fry described as ‘visual music’. Collaborations formed an essential part of Bell’s approach to art, including with her sister, the writer Virginia Woolf, and the artist Duncan Grant, with whom Vanessa Bell’s all-encompassing approach to art found its ultimate expression in Charleston, the farmhouse they shared in East Sussex. Through over 130 works of art produced across her entire career this book examines the development of Bell’s landscapes, still lifes and portraits alongside her wider approach to creativity through design, furniture, ceramics and drawings.

Edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira. Introduction by Anthony Spira and Nathaniel Hepburn. Essays by Rebecca Birrell, Paulina Olowska, Hayley Tompkins, Judy Chicago and The Singh Twins.

Product description

ISBN:‎ 9781913645182
Format: Softback
Number of pages: 192


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Vanessa Bell - A World of Form and Colour

VW Large Flower Bowl

Fran Fell - Tutti Frutti Vase

Fran Fell - Pink Brown Jug

Fran Fell - Night Flowers Vase

Fran Fell - Blue Bobble Vase

Famous Women Dinner Service

Magnet

Googly Coin Purse

Square Matches

Handmade Wine Glass

Kantha Quilt

Bobbin Lamp Base

Common Clay Lamp

Nessa Jug

Painted Lampbase

Ceramics

Jo Rance - Mother's Nest

Jo Rance - Three Birds

Jo Rance - To See Myself in You

Tabby Booth - Swan

Tabby Booth - Ram

Tabby Booth - Pig

Tabby Booth - Cockerel

Tabby Booth - Bull

Artwork

Kelly Jessiman - Matisse Vase

Kelly Jessiman - Yellow Candlestick

Hand Painted Lamp Base - Yellow

Hand Painted Lamp Base - Green

Hand Painted Lamp Base - Red

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Tulip Lampshade

Hound Lampshade

Duncan Lampshade

The Bloomsbury Group

Koak Print - Little Tuber

Koak print - Some Future

Koak Print - An Immovable Mass of Longing

Izumi Kato Notebook

Vanessa Bell - A World of Form and Colour Poster

Koak Poster

Inventing Post Impressionism Poster

Izumi Kato - Living In Figures

Izumi Kato - Like a Rolling Snowball

Vanessa Bell: Modern Living

Jute Coaster Set

Izumi Kato Poster

Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

Foundations of a Collection

Gary Edwards - Fig Leaf Plate Yellow / Blue

Gary Edwards - White Leaf Dish Oval

Gary Edwards - Giant Fig Leaf Charger

Gary Edwards - Fig Leaf Plate Blue / White

White Leaf Dish

Spot Stripe Vase

Gary Edwards - Fig Leaf Plate Yellow / Cream

Small Ribbed Charger

Gary Edwards - Fig Leaf Plate Blue / Cream

Abstract Cushion Cover

Cedric Morris Neckerchief

Cressida Bell Scarf- Black Fireworks

Duncan Grant Man in Costume

The Bloomsbury Look

Poor Artists

Creative Acts For Curious People

The Bloomsbury Cookbook

Harris & Jones

Charleston Zip Purse - Queen Mary

Charleston Zip Purse - Pamela

Charleston Zip Purse -West Wind

Charleston Zip Purse - Maud

Charleston Zip Purse - Clouds

Charleston Zip Purse - Pink Grapes

A Lesson in Art and Life

Arthur Lett Haines - Witch Fetish Postcard

Arthur Lett Haines - The Escape Postcard

Arthur Lett Haines - Strand at Luz Postcard

Arthur Lett Haines - Jeunes Filles aux Fleurs Postcard

Arthur Lett Haines - Italian Landscape Postcard

Arthur Lett Haines - Brighton Station Postcard

Cedric Morris - Winter Flowers Postcard

Cedric Morris - The Eggs Postcard

Cedric Morris - Summer Garden Flowers Postcard

Cedric Morris - Scott Macgregor Postcard

Cedric Morris - Roma Milla Postcard

Cedric Morris - Nancy Thomas Postcard

Cedric Morris - Lucy Harwood Postcard

Cedric Morris - Ivy Achlan Achoy Postcard

Cedric Morris - Dorothy Bromley Postcard

Cedric Morris - Dora Morris Postcard

Cedric Morris - Cordelia Dobson Postcard

Cedric Morris - Benton End Postcard

Cedric Morris - Cabbages Postcard

Cedric Morris - Belle of Bloomsbury Postcard

Cedric Morris -  Flowers in a Portuguese Landscape Postcard

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