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Bloomsbury rooms, modernism, subculture, and domesticity, Christopher Reed

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Bloomsbury rooms, modernism, subculture, and domesticity, Christopher Reed

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bloomsbury rooms

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Christopher Reed

Sub title

modernism, subculture, and domesticity

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Heroism and housework: competing ideas of the modern. -- Rooms of one's own: three early domestic environments. Vanessa Bell and 46 Gordon Square (1904-12) ; Roger Fry and Durbins (1909-19) ; Duncan Grant and King's College, Cambridge (1910). -- Sailing to Byzantium: Post-Impressionist primitivism. Greek loves: Mediterranean modernism and the Borough Polytechnic murals (1911) ; Forging a feminist primitivism: Byzantine women by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell (1912) ; Country and city: Asheham and Brunswick Square (1911-12). -- On to Omega: the workshops' origins and objects. The origins of the Omega ; A modern Eden (1913-14) ; Abstraction and design (1914-15). -- An aesthetic of conscientious objection: Bloomsbury's wartime environments. Outposts of peace: Eleanor and Wissett (1915-16) ; Making Charleston (1916-17) ; Urban outposts: River House and 46 Gordon Square (1916-19). -- Re-imagining modernism. Public figures' private spaces: King's College, Cambridge and 52 Tavistock Square (1920-24) ; Signifying subculture: Gordon Square Houses and Charleston (1924-28) ; The end of amusing: interiors and commissions (1927-36)

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