TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shone,Richard
AU  - Beechey,James
AU  - Morphet,Richard
ED  - Tate Gallery.
ED  - Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
ED  - Yale Center for British Art.
TI  - The art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant 
SN  - 0691049939 :
AV  - N6768.5.B55 S55 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Fry, Roger Eliot,
KW  - Bell, Vanessa,
KW  - Grant, Duncan,
KW  - Bloomsbury group
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - "This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, 4 November 1999-30 January 2000 and touring to The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, 4 March-20 April 2000; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven Connecticut, 20 May-2 September 2000"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index
N2  - The word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics, agnosticism, defining truth and goodness, and the ideas of Bertrand Russell, A.N. Whitehead, and G.E. Moore. But the Bloomsbury Group also played a prominent role in the development of modernist painting in Britain. The work of artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and their colleagues was often audacious and experimental, and proved to be one of the key influences on twentieth-century British art and design; This catalogue, publish to accompany a major international exhibition of the Bloomsbury painters originating at the Tate Gallery in London and traveling to the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Gallery, provides a new look at the visual side of a movement that is more generally known for its literary production. It traces the artists' development over several decades and assesses their contribution to modernism entries on two hundred works, all illustrated in color, bring out the chief characteristics of Bloomsbury painting -- domestic, contemplative, sensuous, and essentially pacific. These are seen in landscapes, portraits, and still lifes set in London, Sussex, and the South of France, as well as in the abstract painting and applied art that placed these artists at the forefront of the avant-garde before the First World War. Portraits of family and friends -- from Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes to Aldous Huxley and Edith Sitwell -- highlight the cultural and social setting of the group. Essays by leading scholars provide further insights into theworks and the changing critical reaction to them, exploring friendships and relationships both within and outside of Bloomsbury, as well as the movements wider social, economic, and political background; With beautiful illustrations and a highly accessible text, this catalogue represents a unique look at this fascinating artistic enclave. In addition to the editor, the contributors are James Beechey and Richard Morphet
ER  -