Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden

Name: Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Quentin Bell
ISBN: 9780711223707

Quentin Bell

01/05/2004
Frances Lincoln

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden par Quentin Bell

Résumé

Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney's atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell's family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday.