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Charleston : a Bloomsbury house and garden

Bell, Quentin2018
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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.
Main title:
Charleston : a Bloomsbury house and garden / Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson ; photographs by Gavin Kingcome.
Author:
Edition:
Revised and updated edition.
Imprint:
London : White Lion Publishing, 2018©2018
Collation:
175 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN:
9780711239319 (pbk)9780711239319 (paperback)
Dewey class:
700.922700
Language:
English
BRN:
511641
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
East Melbourne Library-Art and CultureARTS 700 BELLAvailable
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