Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury

Name: Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury
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ISBN: 9780226470047

ISBN-10: 0226470040

ISBN-13: 9780226470047

Edition: 1993

Authors: Hugh Lee, Michael Holroyd

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The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, home to Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. A Cézanne in the Hedge brings together thirty firsthand reminiscences of the Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativity--and eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicholson are interspersed with appraisals of the work of Bloomsbury members such as Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf and of their contribution to twentieth-century British art and thought. The finale is a childhood spoof written by Virginia Woolf entitled "A…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.660



Foreword by Michael Holroyd


Introduction: Bloomsbury's Ups and Downs—Noï¿½l Annan



Bloomsbury Painters Vanessa Bell



Duncan Grant as Stage Designer



Remembering Duncan andnbsp;Vanessa



The Omega Workshops



Roger Fry and his Aesthetic



A Look at Roger Fry



Durbins



Sickert and Bloomsbury




Virginia and Vanessa Two Sisters: Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell



Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf



Fry and Virginia Woolf: Pictures and Books



A Biographer's Dilemma: Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry



Leaska Vita and Virgina and Vanessa



Virginia and Rose



Came to Lunch



The Last Artist



Fitzgerald Desmond MacCarthy: A Memoir of Affection



Some Memories of Octavia Wilberforce




Charleston Towards Charleston



Bell Bloomsbury Houses



A Cï¿½zanne in the Hedge



A Tale of Two Houses



Pictures at Charleston: Past and Present



Charleston Revisited



Life in the Kitchen and Elsewhere



Holidays at Charleston



The Restoration of Charleston



How it Strikes a New Yorker



Epilogue: A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond



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