Duncan Grant - A Biography

Spalding, Frances

ISBN 10: 0701134097 / ISBN 13: 9780701134099

Edité par Chatto & Windus, 1997

A propos de cet article

Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG. xvi+570pp, 24pp colour & b/w plates, index, SIGNED by the author to the title, edges of the dustjacket a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. A biography of Duncan Grant [ 1885 - 1978 ] the Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group. 1200 grams.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Duncan Grant - A Biography
• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0701134097
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780701134099
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Poids: 1200 grammes
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography
  • Painting

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Synopsis

This is a biography of the well-known British painter, Duncan Grant. He was a central member of Bloomsbury, but he also extended far beyond it, into every level of English society. Spalding sheds light on his love affairs with Lytton Strachey and Maynard Keynes, and on his tempestuous relationship with Vanessa Bell, with whom he lived at Charleston, and had a daughter, Angelica. Spalding also reassesses Grant's painting, setting it in the context of his fluctuating reputation, which dipped after World War II, but was followed by a revival of interest in his work by a younger audience in the late Sixties. He lived to be 93, his life spanning Victorian society and the modern day.

Quatrième de couverture

The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant (1885-1978) spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s, from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George. As an artist he experimented boldly before 1914, and helped break the mould of Edwardian painting, but he was also imbued with a love of the past, translating many traditions into modern terms. Using unpublished letters and diaries, Frances Spalding follows him from childhood in India, Scotland and London, through student days in London and Paris, to his involvement with the Bloomsbury group, the Omega workshops and his growing fame.

At each stage, the excitement of Grant's artistic creativity is interwoven with his emotional and sexual life, the passions for men that ran alongside his enduring relationship with Vanessa Bell. And although we feel extraordinary collective energy of the milieu in which Grant lived and worked, the abiding impression is of a wayward, gentle, slightly detached personality whose art and life were bound together by the intense delight and curiosity with which he viewed the world.