Vanessa Bell - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781300518 ISBN 13: 9781781300510

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

This accompanying publication beautifully showcases the oil paintings, photographs, ceramics, fabrics, decorative screens and works on paper in a stunning display of Vanessa Bell's vibrant and wide-ranging talent. Long overshadowed by the complexity of her family life and romantic entanglements, the editors assess Bell in the context of her relationship with sister, Virginia Woolf, and as muse and confidant to Roger Fry and Duncan Grant but ultimately present an intrepid artist deserving of fresh consideration.

About this title

About the Author:

Sarah Milroy is the former editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine and a co-founder of the Canadian Art Foundation. From 2001 to 2010, she served as chief art critic of the Globe and Mail. Sarah co-curated From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia with Ian AC Dejardin in 2015.

Ian AC Dejardin is Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. He has previously curated the Painting Canada series: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven (2011) and From the Forest to the Sea (as above) with Sarah Milroy.

Review:

If Bell's work is put together on its own, and not in the shadows of her friends, it shows her to be a significant and exciting artist. This new show, the largest so far dedicated solely to her, has amassed an impressing collection of these works – around 70 paintings, plus artifacts of all kinds – and makes a convincing case for her historical re-evaluation.

(The Globe and Mail 2017-03-07)

About this edition

• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1781300518
• ISBN 13: 9781781300510
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Milroy Sarah, Dejardin Ian A. C.