Roger Fry: A Biography
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Condition: Good/Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket — paperback cover with wear and fading, some creasing and surface marks visible. Page Condition: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact.
A masterwork of literary biography, Roger Fry: A Biography stands as Virginia Woolf's only full-length biographical work, chronicling the remarkable life of her close friend and celebrated art critic Roger Fry (1866–1934). Woolf presents the man who revolutionised British taste in modern art, detailing his pivotal role in introducing Post-Impressionism to England and his founding of the Omega Workshops. Written with the same luminous prose that defines Woolf's fiction, the biography uncovers the intellectual and emotional complexities of a man who shaped the Bloomsbury Group and transformed the way an entire generation thought about painting and aesthetics. Authoritative yet deeply personal, it argues for Fry's enduring significance not merely as a critic, but as a visionary whose ideas continue to resonate in art history and cultural thought.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Paperback
Published: 1974, Harcourt Brace (Harvest Books)
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good/Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket — paperback cover with wear and fading, some creasing and surface marks visible. Page Condition: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact.
A masterwork of literary biography, Roger Fry: A Biography stands as Virginia Woolf's only full-length biographical work, chronicling the remarkable life of her close friend and celebrated art critic Roger Fry (1866–1934). Woolf presents the man who revolutionised British taste in modern art, detailing his pivotal role in introducing Post-Impressionism to England and his founding of the Omega Workshops. Written with the same luminous prose that defines Woolf's fiction, the biography uncovers the intellectual and emotional complexities of a man who shaped the Bloomsbury Group and transformed the way an entire generation thought about painting and aesthetics. Authoritative yet deeply personal, it argues for Fry's enduring significance not merely as a critic, but as a visionary whose ideas continue to resonate in art history and cultural thought.