Alexandra Harris erzählt von Virginia Woolf, einer bedeutenden Schriftstellerin, die ein intensives, mutiges und von psychischem Leid geprägtes Leben führte. Sie beleuchtet entscheidende Lebensereignisse, Woolfs künstlerische Entwicklung und Gedankenwelt und zeigt ihre Reise von der viktorianischen Kindheit zur Freiheit der Bloomsbury-Boheme.
Discusses the life and work of the twentieth-century English author, Virginia Woolf.
The publication offers a fresh examination of twentieth-century British art, challenging established narratives and exploring themes such as British Surrealism, patronage, and identity. Experts provide new insights that encourage readers to reconsider the connections between art and cultural history. Accompanied by striking visuals, it highlights the resilience of the British artistic tradition while prompting a deeper exploration of its evolution and significance in contemporary society.
Set against the backdrop of a picturesque Sussex landscape, this time travel narrative weaves together the lives of its characters in a captivating exploration of the past. The story, crafted by a prize-winning author, delves into themes of memory and history, offering a unique perspective on the intertwining of personal and collective experiences through time.
In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops.Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately,wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that “the modern”need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy was beguiled into taking photos for Betjeman’s nostalgic An Oxford University Chest.A rich network of personal and cultural encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers. Piper abandoned purist abstracts to make collages on the blustery coast; Virginia Woolf wrote in her last novel about a village pageant on a showery summer day. Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen,and the Sitwells are also part of the story, along with Bill Brandt and Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.