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Vanessa Bell

2012-01-17T22:45:01Z

Helen:

1879-1961. Painter and elder sister of [[Virginia Woolf]].

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'''Biography:'''

Vanessa Stephen was born in 1879. She was the eldest of the four Stephen children. In 1904 her father died and the siblings, Vanesssa, Thoby, Adrian and Virginia, sold their family home and moved to a new House at 46 Gordon Street, Bloomsbury. They often invited friends to their home. The Group of young artists and writers they were surrounded with is therefore known under the name of [[Bloomsbury Group]]. Vanessa started the “Friday Club” were she met with other artists on Fridays. After the death of her younger brother Thoby in 1907 she finally accepted the Clive Bells proposal of marriage, which she had refused twice before. They had two sons. [[Julian Bell]] was born in 1908 and Quentin was born in 1910. Later Vanessa started a relationship with Roger Fry and her husband also had an affair with another woman. They stayed friends and he kept on caring for their to sons financially. Vanessa Bell then had a close relationship with the artist [[Duncan Grant]]. [[Image:Charleston_farmhouse_yvestown_original.jpg|thumb| Charleston Farmhouse as it can be seen today.]]
They rented the Charleston Farmhouse , where they moved in 1916, together with Vanessa’s children and also Duncan’s lover David Garnett. In 1918 Duncan and Vanessa had a daughter. Angelica Bell only learned that [[Clive Bell]] as not her true father when she was 19 and she in the end got married to David Garnett in 1942. Obviously her parents were quite shocked about her choice of marriage.
Charleston Farmhouse was kept as a summer home after the end of the First World War Vanessa and Duncan both had studios at Charleston and they also decorated the house, so it would fit together with their paintings. During the Second World War the Charleston Farmhouse became their full-time home again, because it was far away from London and the bombing. Today the estate is kept by the Charleston trust and can be visited.

In 1937 her son Julian died serving in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He was amongst many young writers, poets and artists who went there voluntarily to fight against General Franco and his regime. His mother tried to persuade him not to go into war.
In 1941 her sister [[Virginia Woolf]] committed suicide. In her last years Vanessa Bell lived at Charleston. She died in 1961.

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'''Art:'''

coming soon

Sources:
Tate Online.16 Jan 2012.http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/bio_bell.htm

Tate Online.16 Jan 2012. http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/art_bell.htm

Shone, Richard. The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant. Exhibition catalogue: Tate Gallery 1999, Princeton: PUP. 1999.

Vanessa Bell

2012-01-17T22:38:28Z

Helen:

1879-1961. Painter and elder sister of [[Virginia Woolf]].

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'''Biography:'''

Vanessa Stephen was born in 1879. She was the eldest of the four Stephen children. In 1904 her father died and the siblings, Vanesssa, Thoby, Adrian and Virginia, sold their family home and moved to a new House at 46 Gordon Street, Bloomsbury. They often invited friends to their home. The Group of young artists and writers they were surrounded with is therefore known under the name of [[Bloomsbury Group]]. Vanessa started the “Friday Club” were she met with other artists on Fridays. After the death of her younger brother Thoby in 1907 she finally accepted the Clive Bells proposal of marriage, which she had refused twice before. They had two sons. [[Julian Bell]] was born in 1908 and Quentin was born in 1910. Later Vanessa started a relationship with Roger Fry and her husband also had an affair with another woman. They stayed friends and he kept on caring for their to sons financially. Vanessa Bell then had a close relationship with the artist [[Duncan Grant]]. [[Image:Charleston_farmhouse_yvestown_original.jpg|thumb| Charleston Farmhouse as it can be seen today.]]
They rented the Charleston Farmhouse , where they moved in 1916, together with Vanessa’s children and also Duncan’s lover David Garnett. In 1918 Duncan and Vanessa had a daughter. Angelica Bell only learned that [[Clive Bell]] as not her true father when she was 19 and she in the end got married to David Garnett in 1942. Obviously her parents were quite shocked about her choice of marriage.
Charleston Farmhouse was kept as a summer home after the end of the First World War Vanessa and Duncan both had studios at Charleston and they also decorated the house, so it would fit together with their paintings. During the Second World War the Charleston Farmhouse became their full-time home again, because it was far away from London and the bombing. Today the estate is kept by the Charleston trust and can be visited.

In 1937 her son Julian died serving in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He was amongst many young writers, poets and artists who went there voluntarily to fight against General Franco and his regime. His mother tried to persuade him not to go into war.
In 1941 her sister [[Virginia Woolf]] committed suicide. In her last years Vanessa Bell lived at Charleston. She died in 1961.

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'''Art:'''

coming soon

Sources:
http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/bio_bell.htm

http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/art_bell.htm

Shone, Richard. The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant. Exhibition catalogue: Tate Gallery 1999, Princeton: PUP. 1999.

2011-12-05T09:58:49Z

Helen:

Novel by [[E.M. Forster]], first published in 1910. Title does not contain an apostrophe. Novel does not feature one or more Howards.

'Only connect...'

Turned into a Merchant Ivory movie in 1992. [[Image:howards_end.jpg|thumb|Howards End film poster]]

Zadie Smith's novel ''On Beauty'' (2005) transfers ''Howards End'' into contemporary times.

page under construction..

2011-01-18T20:44:43Z

Helen:

Aesthetic movement

2011-01-18T20:39:58Z

Helen:

British art movement, which developed out of a combination of neo-gothic elements and the [[Anne I|Queen Anne]] Revival. Designers of the Aesthetic Movement were fascinated by Japanese woodcuts and oriental art.This newly evoked interest in Japanese art and in its unusual means of perspective is called [[Japonisme]].
Designers of the Aesthetic Movement were for example the architect [[E.W. Godwin]], [[Christopher Dresser]] and [[James Abbot McNeill Whistler]]. One well-known example for the design of this period is the Peacock Room by Whistler, which he made for [[F.R. Leylands]] flat in London in 1876/77. Today it is still show in the Freer Gallery in Washington.
The most prominent figures connected with the Aesthetic Movement in Britain however are [[Oscar Wilde]] and the artist [[Aubrey Beardsley]]. During his short career Aubrey Beardsley was heavily criticised by the press (1.). Especially his illustrations for Oscar Wildes play[[ Salomé]] were seen as too sexual and offensive, therefore some of his initial illustrations had to replaced.[[Image:Aubrey Beardsley 1894 Salome.jpg|thumb|Aubrey Beardsley, Salome, 1894]]

1. „Beardsley`s grotesque figues revealed the late-Victorians`hypocrisy. Reviewers carped about these deformations of the body, often ascribing them to Beardsley`s flirtation with the Japanese who were cultrally inferior and therefore impervious to change.Japanese woodbloc prints offended the British for the same reasons, formal structure and treatment of the subject matter.” Zatlin, p.22

Sources:
Fiell, Carlotte und Peter. Design Handbook: Konzepte ,Materialien, Stile. Köln: Taschen, 2006.

Zatlin, Linda Gertner. Beardsley, Japonisme and the perversion of the Victorian ideal. Cambridge: CUP, 1997. p.19-48.

Aesthetic movement

2011-01-18T20:36:28Z

Helen:

British art movement, which developed out of a combination of neo-gothic elements and the [[Anne I|Queen Anne]] Revival. Designers of the Aesthetic Movement were fascinated by Japanese woodcuts and oriental art.This newly evoked interest in Japanese art and in its unusual means of perspective is called [[Japonisme]].
Designers of the Aesthetic Movement were for example the architect [[E.W. Godwin]], [[Christopher Dresser]] and [[James Abbot McNeill Whistler]]. One well-known example for the design of this period is the Peacock Room by Whistler, which he made for [[F.R. Leylands]] flat in London in 1876/77. Today it is still show in the Freer Gallery in Washington.
The most prominent figures connected with the Aesthetic Movement in Britain however are [[Oscar Wilde]] and the artist [[Aubrey Beardsley]]. During his short career Aubrey Beardsley was heavily criticised by the press (1.). Especially his illustrations for Oscar Wildes play[[ Salomé]] were seen as too sexual and offensive, therefore some of his initial illustrations had to replaced.[[File:Aubrey Beardsley 1894 Salome.jpg]]

1. „Beardsley`s grotesque figues revealed the late-Victorians`hypocrisy. Reviewers carped about these deformations of the body, often ascribing them to Beardsley`s flirtation with the Japanese who were cultrally inferior and therefore impervious to change.Japanese woodbloc prints offended the British for the same reasons, formal structure and treatment of the subject matter.” Zatlin, p.22

Sources:
Fiell, Carlotte und Peter. Design Handbook: Konzepte ,Materialien, Stile. Köln: Taschen, 2006.

Zatlin, Linda Gertner. Beardsley, Japonisme and the perversion of the Victorian ideal. Cambridge: CUP, 1997. p.19-48.

Aesthetic movement

2011-01-18T20:35:58Z

Helen:

British art movement, which developed out of a combination of neo-gothic elements and the [[Anne I|Queen Anne]] Revival. Designers of the Aesthetic Movement were fascinated by Japanese woodcuts and oriental art.This newly evoked interest in Japanese art and in its unusual means of perspective is called [[Japonisme]].
Designers of the Aesthetic Movement were for example the architect [[E.W. Godwin]], [[Christopher Dresser]] and [[James Abbot McNeill Whistler]]. One well-known example for the design of this period is the Peacock Room by Whistler, which he made for [[F.R. Leylands]] flat in London in 1876/77. Today it is still show in the Freer Gallery in Washington.
The most prominent figures connected with the Aesthetic Movement in Britain however are [[Oscar Wilde]] and the artist [[Aubrey Beardsley]]. During his short career Aubrey Beardsley was heavily criticised by the press (1.). Especially his illustrations for Oscar Wildes play[[ Salomé]] were seen as too sexual and offensive, therefore some of his initial illustrations had to replaced.[[File:File:Aubrey Beardsley 1894 Salome.jpg
]]

1. „Beardsley`s grotesque figues revealed the late-Victorians`hypocrisy. Reviewers carped about these deformations of the body, often ascribing them to Beardsley`s flirtation with the Japanese who were cultrally inferior and therefore impervious to change.Japanese woodbloc prints offended the British for the same reasons, formal structure and treatment of the subject matter.” Zatlin, p.22

Sources:
Fiell, Carlotte und Peter. Design Handbook: Konzepte ,Materialien, Stile. Köln: Taschen, 2006.

Zatlin, Linda Gertner. Beardsley, Japonisme and the perversion of the Victorian ideal. Cambridge: CUP, 1997. p.19-48.

2010-07-13T21:08:17Z

Helen:

Peter Townsend

2010-07-13T21:01:43Z

Helen:

Peter Townsend

2010-07-13T20:59:38Z

Helen:

Peter Townsend

2010-07-13T20:57:40Z

Helen:

Peter Townsend

2010-07-13T19:40:40Z

Helen:

1914-1995. War veteran, divorced. [[Princess Margaret]] and he wanted to marry in 1955, but - after pressure from the Church, part of the media, politics and the Royal family - Margaret decided against it.
[[Image:News-graphics-2007-_639660a.jpg|thumb|Margaret and Peter Townsend]]

Sources:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/newsid_3202000/3202307.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/21/obituaries/peter-townsend-dies-at-80-princess-margaret-s-love.html

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzoBKsTZ6uM Video on Townsend]

2010-07-13T10:04:50Z

Helen:

1914-1995. War veteran, divorced. [[Princess Margaret]] and he wanted to marry in 1955, but - after pressure from the Church, part of the media, politics and the Royal family - Margaret decided against it.
[[File:new-graphics-2007-_639660a.jpg]]

Sources:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/newsid_3202000/3202307.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/21/obituaries/peter-townsend-dies-at-80-princess-margaret-s-love.html

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