Blogging Woolf

Three Bloomsbury lectures by Sarah Latham Phillips, MA that will benefit the Art Fund in Bristol will be held on Wednesdays in November — Nov. 8, 15, and 29 — at Redland Quaker Meeting Rooms, 126 Hampton Rd, BRISTOL BS6 6JE.

Phillips is the author of Virginia Woolf as a ‘Cubist’ Writer, available from Cecil Woolf Publishers.

Tickets are £12.50 per lecture or £35 for the series. Contact helenthornbury@aol.com or bristolandbath@artfund.org.uk.

Lecture 1 : An Introduction to the Art and Lives of the Bloomsbury Group

This lecture will introduce the controversial and influential, early modern British, avant-garde Bloomsbury Group: painters, writers, an economist & art critics; at the heart of which were the two sisters Vanessa Bell & Virginia Woolf. It will identify the importance of the artist and criticRoger Fry and his ideas behind the Omega Workshop.

Lecture 2 : More Bloomsbury: Artists, Writers and Patrons on the Fringe of Bloomsbury

This lecture will give more detail on the Bloomsbury Members, particularly John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey and then broaden the circle to introduce Lady Ottoline Morrell, Vita Sackville West, David Garnett, Lydia Lopokova, Dora Carrington, Ralph & Frances Partridge and Gerald Brenan.

Lecture 3 : The Influence of the Visual Arts on the Writing Style of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s novels and short stories of the 1920’s are highly innovative, creative and Modernist in their design. This lecture will introduce the art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell, their Post Impressionist Exhibitions in London in 1910 and 1912 and explain the influences of Cezanne, Picasso, Braque and Matisse and her artist sister Vanessa Bell on her life and work.

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