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Article: Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture and Domesticity.(Book Review)
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Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture and Domesticity Christopher Reed Yale University Press, 25.00 [pounds sterling]/$45 ISBN 0300102488
Roger Fry called it 'our sort of life'; for Clive Bell, it was 'our little patch of civility'; for posterity, it is what identifies Bloomsbury as a group: the art that is life. Bloomsbury Rooms charts the Bloomsbury painters' efforts 'to create domestic environments appropriate to their aspirations for new ways of life ... outside mainstream definitions of home and family'.
Christopher Reed begins by reminding us of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen's urgent desire--endorsed by Lytton Strachey's experience of urban ...