‘No previous book has attempted an overview of the significance of the arts to Woolf. Hence the need for this all encompassing endeavour. Its breadth of interest catches many topics. This is a richly variegated assortment of essays. It will, for a long time, remain a most useful compendium.’ – Frances Spalding, art historian, critic and biographer. Original, extensive and fully up-to-date with the latest research, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and theArts explores Woolf’s ideas about creativity and the nature of art. It placesthese ideas in their cultural and historical contexts, and in the context of the recent ‘turn to the visual’ in modernist studies, with its focus on visualtechnologies and the significance of material production. The newly researched chapters, written by internationally recognised authors, place Woolf ’s workin relation to the most influential aesthetic theories and artistic practices, including Bloomsbury aesthetics, art and race, painting (including the work of Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell), art galleries, theatre, music, dance, fashion, entertaining, garden design, book design, broadcasting, film and technology.No previous book concerned with Woolf and the arts has been so wide ranging or has paid such close attention to both public and domestic art forms.
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3552-8
- Editorial: Edinburgh University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés