Sketches in Pen and Ink
- 214pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Collection of largely unpublished memoirs, illustrated with a selection of Bell's woodcuts and drawings.
Vanessa Bell Libri
Vanessa Bell fu una figura centrale nel circolo letterario e artistico di Bloomsbury, un'artista il cui lavoro è caratterizzato da colori audaci e da un ardito riduzionismo. Le sue prime inclinazioni artistiche e la sua formazione formale posero le basi per un'esplorazione artistica durata tutta la vita. Dopo la morte del padre, Bell e i suoi fratelli si trasferirono a Bloomsbury, stabilendo la loro casa come un centro di vita sociale anticonformista e di discussioni intellettuali che plasmarono il gruppo di Bloomsbury. La sua arte fu profondamente influenzata dal modernismo francese, in particolare dal post-impressionismo, che si manifestò nelle sue coraggiose scelte cromatiche e nelle forme semplificate. Sebbene in seguito tornò a metodi più tradizionali, il suo lavoro conservò sempre un potente uso del colore, per il quale è forse oggi più ammirata.
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- 208pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature’s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf’s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.
As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby Stephen collaborated on their very own family newspaper. Published here, Hyde Park Gate News includes the original drawings as well as previously unpublished photographs from the family albums. Ingeniously mimicking the style of the leading newspapers of their day, the Stephen children present a charming and candid portrayal of the day-to-day events at their family home in London and at their holiday home in St Ives. Gossipy, playful, and at times irreverent, they record the comings and goings of a host of figures, George Meredith and Henry James among them, while also proffering their own fictional, poetic, and artistic creations. Acclaimed for her innovative style, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is one of the most important figures of the Modernist movement; her sister Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) was a painter and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group.
In "Kew Gardens" fängt Virginia Woolf Impressionen eines Junitags im Botanischen Garten ein, umrahmt von der Malerin Vanessa Bell. Dieses frühe Prosastück markiert Woolfs Experiment mit einer neuen Erzählweise, die später in ihren großen Romanen wie "Mrs Dalloway" und "Zum Leuchtturm" weiterentwickelt wird. Ein Begleittext von Klaus Reichert ist enthalten.