Better remembered now as Vanessa Bell’s husband, CB’s 1914 ‘Art’ was a ground-breaking re-evaluation that stood at the centre of early C20th art. This fine biography reclaims his significance; and the company – Bloomsbury as well as Cocteau, Picasso, Eliot and many others – is excellent.
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography
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£30.00
Edition:Hardback978140889444601/04/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Zulfikar was executed in 1979; three of his children were murdered. One can understand why the brilliant author Fatima keeps her distance from politics.
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Warhol: A Life as Art
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SOE sent more than 400 agents into France of whom 39 were women. Vigurs traces them all here, not just the well known ones, and sets them in their context.
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Reinvention, escape, adventure, romance, survival... Not all the women were 'port out starboard home'. Gripping and entertaining social history from the author of 'Queen Bees'.