Vanessa Bell : the life and art of a Bloomsbury radical / Wendy Hitchmough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hitchmough, Wendy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961.

Bell, Vanessa.

Bloomsbury group.

Painters--England--Biography.

Painters.

Women painters--England--Biography.

Women painters.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

346 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"One of Britain’s most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century, Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women. Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within the Bloomsbury Group and known for her unconventional lifestyle, but her work as a painter, designer, and decorator has often been overlooked and relegated within the bombastic, male-dominated field of British modernism. With new research, including previously unpublished letters, Wendy Hitchmough explores the ways in which Bell (1879–1961) forged new pathways as a modernist woman. Writing openly about depression and mental health at a time when the subject was stigmatised, as well as challenging taboos surrounding women’s bodies, Bell exploited the patriarchal society that oppressed her. She responded to the nudes and pastoral scenes of Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse with themes of miscarriage and motherhood. She exhibited with her partner, Duncan Grant, and comparisons between their parallel careers highlight the gender disparities that shaped her life and work"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-334) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Stait fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0300269218

9780300269215

OCLC:

1449672879