Ways of Life (eBook)

Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists

Laura Freeman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
400 Seiten
Random House (Verlag)
978-1-4735-7099-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art Beautifully written A book I have always hoped someone would write NIGEL SLATER'[An] outstanding and enviably well-written biography. Strongly recommend' INDIA KNIGHT'The beautiful, revelatory biography we have been waiting for. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAALJim Ede was a man of remarkable energy and vision: a collector, dealer, fixer, critic and, above all, friend to artists. As Laura Freeman shows in this captivating biography, the lives of Ede and the artists he championed represent a thrilling tipping point in twentieth-century modernism: a new guard, a new way of making and seeing, and a new way of living with art.At Kettle s Yard in Cambridge, he opened his home and his collection to all comers. Art ca be found there wherever you look in a pebble, feather or seedhead. His approach has shown generations of visitors that learning to look can be a whole new way of life. A beautiful, original biography Freeman s writing has Ede s flair, grace and insight FINANCIAL TIMES'An extraordinary tale' LITERARY REVIEW A cabinet of curiosities The story of a life and of a century LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4735-7099-9 / 1473570999
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-7099-3 / 9781473570993