Omega and After
Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts
Isabelle Anscombe
Photographs by Howard Grey
Foreword by John Lehmann
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| 'An extremely charming book, a must for all Bloomsbury devotees' | | - The Financial Times |
The literary output of the Bloomsbury Group has been thoroughly scrutinized, but one major aspect of their activity has been neglected: their designs for the decorative arts. In this story the heroine is Vanessa Bell, whose house, Charleston, became a monument to the Omega Workshops. Started in London in 1913 by the art critic Roger Fry; the Omega workshops aimed to produce applied arts in the spirit of the Post-Impressionists. They were not a commercial success,closing in 1919, but the combined talents of Vanessa Bell, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Mark Gertler, Frederick Etchells, McKnight Kauffer and Wyndham Lewis have a fresh and intense appeal eighty years later.
Isabelle Anscombe catches the flavour of the time and its personalities, from bohemians to the haut monde, while the photographs by Howard Grey record objects which remain very largely in their original settings.
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500273626 | | ISBN-13 978-0500273623 | | | | 24.6 x 18.4 cm | | Paperback | | 176pp | | 124 illustrations, 20 in colour | | First published 1985 | | | | £14.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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