Omega and after : Bloomsbury and the decorative arts

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Omega and after : Bloomsbury and the decorative arts

Isabelle Anscombe ; photographs by Howard Grey ; foreword by John Lehmann

Thames & Hudson, 1984, c1981

  • : pbk

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"First published ... in 1981. First paperback edition 1984"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171) and index

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内容説明

While the literary output of members of the Bloomsbury Group has been thoroughly scrutinized, another aspect of their activity has been largely overlooked, that is, their designs for the decorative arts. The Omega Workshops, started in London in 1913 by Roger Fry, were a venture without precedent, aiming to produce decorative art from a background - not of crafts - but of painting. They boasted such talents as Vanessa Bell, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis. The Omega closed in 1919, but Bloomsbury decorative work did not cease. Vanessa Bell remained the central figure; settled into life at Charleston in Sussex, she and Duncan Grant continued to design objects and schemes, and her children later made their own contributions, Quentin as potter and Angelica as painter. Isabelle Anscombe's text, drawing on unpublished sources, catches the flavour of the time and its characters, from bohemians to haut monde. Howard Grey was allowed to print and reproduce early snapshot negatives, and his own photographs, begun before Duncan Grant's death, include unique records of Charleston still inhabited by one of its creators.

目次

  • Roger Fry and the foundation of the Omega workshops
  • Vanessa Bell and the development of an idea
  • the war years
  • the ending of the Omega
  • new departures
  • the thirties
  • the forgotten years.

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