‘Please bring no clothes: we live in a state of utmost simplicity’: so wrote Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot in 1920. Porter looks at the Bloomsbury group through their clothes – their creativity, pacifism, relationships, sexuality. This new book by the author of What Artists Wear and former fashion critic at the FT accompanies this autumn’s exhibition exploring the same themes at Charleston’s new outpost in Lewes.
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion
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£20.00
Edition:Hardback978024160275107/09/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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A very welcome re-issue. Not so much art history as a series of conversations and thoughts about the work of Paul Nash, David Jones, Joan Eardley, Ben Nicholson and others. Some illustration... read more
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Examines the feverish decade before WWI, when the Old Masters and the Avant-Gardists split the art world in two.
Art of the Extreme 1905-1914
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Teaching at the Royal College of Art from 1948-1975, he had enormous influence on a generation of British artists. He was also a significant artist in his own right, best known for his vivid... read more
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The distinguished Parisian flaneur and Bacon's biographer covers the whole gamut of modern art in these pieces.
The Making of Modern Art: Selected Writings
Hardback £25.00