British bohemia. The Bloomsbury Circle of Virginia Woolf
15.09.2010 - 09.01.2011
The controversial avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, at the heart of which were the writer Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell, is today considered the most pivotal, most famous and most valuable development in 20th-century British culture. Active from 1905 until the outbreak of World War II, the work and lives of these writers, painters, musicians, journalists and art critics exerted vast influence on modern British and world art and literature. This is the first opportunity for the Polish public to gain unrivalled insight into the turbulent history of the Bloomsbury Group, its members, and their masterpieces. On display at the ICC Gallery will be the best paintings, woodcuts and lithographs of such well-known artists as Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf), Duncan Grant, Roger Fry and Dora Carrington, as well as ceramics, furniture and crafts.
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British Bohemia. The Bloomsbury Circle of Virginia Woolf
Collective work
The catalogue follows the history of the controversial avant-garde Bloomsbury Group in the first half of the 20th century. The group, with Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa remaining at the heart of it, attracted various artists, writers and intellectuals despite the fact that the group members neither wrote a manifesto nor had a common agenda. Though remembered as a body of extravagant individuals who refused to conform to the norms and structures of the Victorian society, their works have had a great impact on contemporary English and world art and literature. The illustrated catalogue comprises paintings, woodcuts, lithographs by such celebrated figures as Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry and Dora Carrington. It also includes the images of furniture designed by the before-mentioned artists as well as books published by the renowned Hogarth Press. The catalogue is further complemented by the articles by the most eminent experts in the field: Tony Bradshaw, Frances Spalding, Sara MacDougall and Krystyna Stamirowska.