Roger Fry

Informationen zum Autor Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway , To the Lighthouse , Orlando , and The Waves . Klappentext Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories. Born in 1866, he was primarily responsible for bringing the post-Impressionist movement to Britain, organising the first exhibitions and establishing the Omega workshops: he was also curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York. Virginia Woolf describes his career and also brings to life Fry's private self, his pain, his resilience, his generosity of spirit, which made him such a powerful influence on his own and future generations. Zusammenfassung Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Woolf
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.04.2003
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts
• EAN: 9780099442523
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944252-3
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2 cm
• Series: Vintage Lives; Vintage Lives
• Subjects: Film, Design, Illustration, Fashion, Cinema, Beauty, Photography, Bloomsbury, Architecture, Art History, Politics, Feminism, Feminist, Nature, Creativity, Aesthetics, Theory of art, biography, Painting, Artists, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Writing, Arts, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Poems, Surrealism, History of Art, Modernism, United States of America, USA, Individual artists, art monographs, Impressionism, Paintings and painting, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Exhibition Catalogues, Biographies, British History, art books, biographies and autobiographies, modernists and mavericks, cezanne portraits, van gogh portraits