Publisher's Synopsis
Vanessa Bell: In the Heart of Bloomsbury
Painter, sister, mother, lover-Vanessa Bell was all of these, and more. As a central yet often understated figure within the Bloomsbury Group, she shaped the aesthetic of a generation, painting in quiet defiance of convention and living with the same bold grace that she brought to her art.
In this richly woven portrait, Christian Soleil traces the arc of a life lived at the intersection of beauty and upheaval. From the Victorian constraints of her childhood to the radical freedoms of Charleston, from her deep bond with her sister Virginia Woolf to her complex love for Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell emerges as a woman who made silence eloquent, and color a language of its own.
More than a biography, Vanessa Bell: In the Heart of Bloomsbury invites us into a world where painting was not just a vocation, but a way of seeing-and of surviving. A lyrical exploration of one of the 20th century's most quietly revolutionary artists.
