{"product_id":"vanessa-bell-and-charleston-9781350473027","title":"Vanessa Bell and Charleston: Motherhood, Queerness and the Domestic Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Bell’s art and life were animated by the complex emotions of motherhood: creativity and care bound up with doubt, desire and ambivalence. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first book to focus exclusively on the influence of motherhood in Bell’s art, exploring how it shaped her creative vision and its lasting legacy at Charleston, her country home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1916 Bell moved with her young children and the painter Duncan Grant to Charleston, a remote farmhouse in the Sussex Downs that became a home for art, intimacy and experiment. There she lived until her death in 1961, creating a world where the boundaries between painting and living dissolved, and where care and collaboration lay at the heart of artistic life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving beyond familiar Bloomsbury biography, \u003ci\u003eVanessa Bell and Charleston\u003c\/i\u003e offers a strikingly intimate portrait of Bell at work and at home, and how her art transformed the texture of everyday life. In a feminist and queer reappraisal of Bloomsbury, Jon King unearths Bell's experience of motherhood, and the ways in which her artistic vision unsettled the boundaries between mother and child. The book traces the emotional afterlife of this vision through four generations of women: from Bell’s mother, Julia Stephen, to the photographic legacy of her great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, and onward to her daughter, the writer and artist Angelica Garnett. Through these intertwined lives, it explores how motherhood was inherited, contested and reimagined across time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichly illustrated, it brings together paintings, photographs and objects of the home, from Bell’s decorated rooms and family album to the camp \u003ci\u003eFamous Women\u003c\/i\u003e dinner service of 1932, to show how the domestic imagination, in its maternal, queer and collaborative forms, reverberates through the story of both Bloomsbury and British modernism more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 October 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 159 mm; Width 234 mm; Thickness 17 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781350473027\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Jon King","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67650043707642,"sku":"9781350473027","price":20.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781350473027.jpg?v=1791255902","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/vanessa-bell-and-charleston-9781350473027","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}