The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts

Abstract

The most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations In original, extensive and newly researched chapters by internationally recognised authors, the Companion explores Woolf's ideas about creativity and the nature of art in the context of the recent 'turn to the visual' in modernist studies with its focus on visual technologies and the significance of material production. The in-depth chapters place Woolf's work in relation to the most influential aesthetic theories and artistic practices, including Bloomsbury aesthetics, art and race, Vanessa Bell and painting, art galleries, theatre, music, dance, fashion, entertaining, garden and book design, broadcasting, film, and photography. No previous book concerned with Woolf and the arts has been so wide ranging or has paid such close attention to both public and domestic art forms. Illustrated with 16 colour as well as 39 black and white illustrations and with guides to further reading, the Companion will be an essential reference work for scholars, students and the general public. Contributors: Tony Bradshaw, Liz and Peter Brooker, Pamela L. Caughie, Patrick Collier, Colin Dickey, Kate Flint, Jane Garrity, Maggie Humm, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Diane F. Gillespie, Jane Goldman, Evelyn Haller, Nuala Hancock, Leslie K. Hankins, Benjamin Harvey, Elizabeth Hirsh, Joyce E. Kelley, Laura Marcus, Vara S.Neverow, Merry M. Pawlowski, Linden Peach, Makiko Minow-Pinkney, Steven Putzel, Victoria Rosner, Brenda R. Silver, Anthony Uhlmann