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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The first decades of the twentieth century brought enormous change in Britain. Men’s and women’s roles came under scrutiny class and social structures were transformed. This book casts new light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. Christopher Reed analyzes the rooms designed by Bloomsbury artists as spaces in which to be modern. The book traces the development of Bloomsbury’s domestic aesthetic from the group’s influential promulgation of Post- Impressionism in Britain around 1910 through the 1970s. In detailed studies of rooms and environments created for Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes among others by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell and her artist colleagues Duncan Grant and Roger Frs. Reed challenges the accepted notion that these artists drifted away from modernism. He presents their work as an alternative form of modernism later suppressed by sexist and homophobic attitudes that disparaged the decorative arts and domesticity in general as well as Bloomsbury in particular. The aesthetic and ideological implications of the Bloomsbury interiors were international in scope Reed argues and constitute important episodes in this history of modernity. (MP)