Room of Their Own : The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections by Christopher Reed (2009, Hardcover)

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PublisherCornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
ISBN-101934260053
ISBN-139781934260050
eBay Product ID (ePID)71663363

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Book TitleRoom of Their Own : the Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Art
AuthorChristopher Reed
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in
Item Weight48.1 Oz
Item Length10.3 in
Item Width8.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-938122
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, showcases how American admirers of the writing of Woolf, Strachey, and their circle acquired art that complemented these literary interests. . . . Five essays from a team of arts and letters specialists present a useful survey of the entire Bloomsbury project and its American context. The book features over 250 illustrations, most in color. Recommended."-W. S. Rodner, Choice, September 2009, "This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, showcases how American admirers of the writing of Woolf, Strachey, and their circle acquired art that complemented these literary interests. . . . Five essays from a team of arts and letters specialists present a useful survey of the entire Bloomsbury project and its American context. The book features over 250 illustrations, most in color. Recommended."--W. S. Rodner, Choice, September 2009, This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, showcases how American admirers of the writing of Woolf, Strachey, and their circle acquired art that complemented these literary interests.... Five essays from a team of arts and letters specialists present a useful survey of the entire Bloomsbury project and its American context. The book features over 250 illustrations, most in color. Recommended.
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal709.420904
SynopsisThis catalogue accompanies an exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and curated by Nancy E. Green., Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value of craft in an industrialized world, women's rights, environmental protection, and the search for the true, the good, and the beautiful in their art and their lives. A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections examines the group's responses to these issues, providing a valuable mirror on how people can address similar concerns today. A hundred years after the Bloomsbury group was established, their story still resonates and brings together a variety of interests across many artistic and intellectual pursuits. This catalog, the companion catalog to an acclaimed exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in 2008, is illustrated with full-color plates of the two hundred exhibited works, as well as numerous color figures of comparative works and documentary photographs. It also features essays by several leading Bloomsbury scholars. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, author of a major 1995 Carrington biography, provides a personal overview of artistic Bloomsbury. Nancy E. Green, the Johnson Museum curator and organizer of the exhibition, explores the Victorian-era influence on sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Mark Hussey's essay discusses the cultural differences behind how British and American audiences experience Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group. Benjamin Harvey offers "An Appreciation of Bloomsbury's Books and Blocks." Christopher Reed presents personal stories behind many of the prominent Bloomsbury collectors in North America.
LC Classification NumberND468.5.B55R66 2008

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