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Room of Their Own
Nancy E Green
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Description for Room of Their Own
Hardcover. Editor(s): Green, Nancy E.; Reed, Christopher. Num Pages: 272 pages, 301. BIC Classification: ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1300.
Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value of craft in an industrialized world, women's rights, environmental protection, and the search for the true, the good, and the beautiful in their art and their lives. A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections examines the group's responses to these issues, providing a valuable mirror on how people can address similar concerns today. A hundred years after the Bloomsbury group was established, their story still resonates and brings together a variety of interests across many artistic ... Read more
Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value of craft in an industrialized world, women's rights, environmental protection, and the search for the true, the good, and the beautiful in their art and their lives. A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections examines the group's responses to these issues, providing a valuable mirror on how people can address similar concerns today. A hundred years after the Bloomsbury group was established, their story still resonates and brings together a variety of interests across many artistic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
1300g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781934260050
SKU
V9781934260050
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Ref
99-1
About Nancy E Green
Nancy E. Green is The Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of European and American Art, Prints & Drawings, 1800-1945 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, where she has curated many exhibitions and written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fine and decorative art. She is the coauthor of Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts.
Reviews for Room of Their Own
This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, showcases how American admirers of the writing of Woolf, Strachey, and their circle acquired art that complemented these literary interests. . . . Five essays from a team of arts and letters specialists present a useful survey of the entire Bloomsbury project and its American context. The book features over 250 illustrations, most ... Read more