COURSE: Bloomsbury and the Rise of Modernism with David Brindley

Tuesdays 23 June – 14 July

7 – 8.30pm

In an era of turmoil a group of friends challenged traditions in art, literature, morality and gender. From their beginnings in 1905 until the political tensions of the 1930’s the Bloomsbury Group developed and championed new forms of painting and literature, while their open relationships scandalised polite society.

This course traces their achievements and relationships and concentrates on the art of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington and Roger Fry and the literature of Virginia Woolf, E M Forster and T S Eliot.  We will also look at the group’s Wiltshire connections, and discuss their lasting influence.