"The Art of Bloomsbury".

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From: Artforum International
Date: 19990901
Author:Rosenblum, Robert

TATE GALLERY

With a glamorous cast that includes Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf and its spicy scenarios of sexual liberation, "Bloomsbury" has become by now a synonym for privileged British bohemianism. But if the arty milieu has been resurrected by the likes of Ken Russell and Merchant-Ivory, the actual work of Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry (who coined the term Post-Impressionism in 1910 for the pivotal exhibition he hoped would plant the Parisian seeds of modern art's mystery in alien London soil) is seldom seen. "The Art of Bloomsbury," an ...

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