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The Bloomsbury Look Wendy Hitchmough

The Bloomsbury Look By Wendy Hitchmough

The Bloomsbury Look by Wendy Hitchmough


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The Bloomsbury Look by Wendy Hitchmough

An in-depth study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group expressed their liberal philosophies and collective identity in visual form

[Fascinating and wide-ranging. . . . Will be enjoyed by both Bloomsbury aficionados and newcomers alike.-Lucinda Willan, V&A Magazine

The Bloomsbury Group was a loose collective of forward-thinking writers, artists, and intellectuals in London, with Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster among its esteemed members. The group's works and radical beliefs, spanning literature, economics, politics, and non-normative relationships, changed the course of 20th-century culture and society. Although its members resisted definition, their art and dress imparted a coherent, distinctive group identity.

Drawing on unpublished photographs and extensive new research, The Bloomsbury Look is the first in-depth analysis of how the Bloomsbury Group generated and broadcast its self-fashioned aesthetic. One chapter is dedicated to photography, which was essential to the group's visual narrative-from casual snapshots, to amateur studio portraits, to family albums. Others examine the Omega Workshops as a design center, and the evidence for its dress collections, spreading the Bloomsbury aesthetic to the general public. Finally, the book considers the group's extensive participation in 20th-century modernism as artists, models, curators, critics, and collectors.

The Bloomsbury Look Reviews

The Bloomsbury Group-and in particular, the style of Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell-has been a constant source of inspiration for artists, fashion designers and interior decorators. This well-illustrated volume analyses the visual artefacts-garments and hair styles, art and furniture-the group used to signal membership.-Lauren Indvik, Financial Times, Best Books of 2020: Style

Ms. Hitchmough's history vividly fleshes out Dorothy Parker's observation that '[The Bloomsbury Group] lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles.'-Ann Landi, Wall Street Journal

An in-depth look at the visual creations of the group of writers that included Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster . . . features fascinating unpublished photographs.-Martin Chilton, The Independent

Hitchmough's investigation is very much detailed, and her minute scrutiny of various forms of evidence does convey a precise impression of the group's visual identity, delivering the promised new take on Bloomsbury.-Laurent Bury, Cercles

[A] fascinating and wide-ranging account. . . . This is a book that wears its scholarship lightly and will be enjoyed by both Bloomsbury aficionados and newcomers alike.-Lucinda Willan, V&A Magazine

[A] fascinating study [and] beautifully illustrated with images of paintings, decorative arts and clothing designs, plus a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, the book explores the distinctive aesthetic that defines this loose collective of artists, writers and intellectuals that revolved round Vanessa Bell and her sister, Virginia Woolf.-Victoria Marston, Country Life, Book of the Week

Examines unpublished photographs and members' experiments in dress in the first in-depth analysis of how the Bloomsbury Group generated and broadcast this image.-Homes & Antiques

A landmark in the analysis and recognition of what exactly we mean when we use the term 'Bloomsbury.' . . . It is far-reaching in its subject matter, easily accessible in style, rigorous in its research and often surprising and stimulating in its conclusions.-Claire Nicholson, Virginia Woolf Bulletin

[Draws] on family photo albums, painted portraits and lesser-known works, such as textiles and clothing made by the Omega Workshops in London.-Sophie Devlin, House & Garden

This great swirl of lives that Hitchmough choreographs as if to a soundtrack by Debussy and the Ballets Russes-itself so influential on the Bloomsbury look-makes for an enticing book, one with something new to say.-Jane Hill, World of Interiors

Fascinating and wide-ranging, this book will be enjoyed by both Bloomsbury aficionados and newcomers alike.-Angela Wintle, Sussex Life

Despite the large number of existing publications about the Bloomsbury Group, the first to promote Post-Impressionism in England, this volume adds refreshing new knowledge on their work and self-fashioning.-Lou Taylor, Costume Society

[A] treasure of a book.-Lou Taylor, Costume Society

About Wendy Hitchmough

Wendy Hitchmough is senior lecturer in art history at the University of Sussex and was curator at the Bloomsbury artists' home, Charleston, for over 12 years.

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GOR012618278
9780300244113
0300244118
The Bloomsbury Look by Wendy Hitchmough
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Yale University Press
20201013
184
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