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
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711239319
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 176
Tiempo de lectura:
3h 34m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 06/09/2018
Año de edición: 2018
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Escrito por Quentin Bell
QUENTIN BELL (1910-1996) fue un crítico, historiador del arte y escritor inglés, hijo de Vanessa y Clive Bell, dos pilares del grupo de Bloomsbury, y autor, entre otros, de la aclamada biografía de su tía, Virginia Woolf.