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Art of Dora Carrington, The

Art of Dora Carrington, The

Jane Hill, Michael Holroyd
ISBN: 9781871569827 Categories: ,

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ART Biography –

This edition has been issued to coincide with the release of Christopher Hampton’s film about Dora Carrington, and also with an exhibition at the Barbican. Best-known for her devotion to Lytton Strachey, which culminated in her early suicide after his death, and her association with the rest of the Bloomsbury Group, Dora Carrington was a considerable artist in her own right. This book concentrates on her as an artist, and reveals the whole range of her considerable achievements: portraits, landscapes, glass paintings and decorative work.
pp. 144 illusts #121225 (Barbican Exhibition leaflet enclosed)

Carrington was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group, though she was closely associated with Bloomsbury and, more generally, with “Bohemian” attitudes, through her long relationship with the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, whom she first met in 1916. Distinguished by her cropped pageboy hair style (before it was fashionable) and somewhat androgynous appearance, she was troubled by her sexuality; she is believed by some to have had an affair with Henrietta Bingham. She also had a romantic relationship with the writer Gerald Brenan.

Additional Information

AuthorJane Hill, Michael Holroyd
Number of pages144
PublisherHerbert Press, London
Year Published1995
Binding Type

Softcover
Book Condition

FINE!

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