📗 Libro en inglés WAYS OF LIFE

This first biography of the Kettle s Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism Beautifully written A book I have always hoped someone would write Nigel SlaterJim Ede was a man of remarkable energy and vision a collector dealer fixer critic and above all friend to artists As Laura Freeman shows in this captivating biography the lives of Ede and the artists he championed represent a thrilling tipping point in twentieth century modernism a new guard a new way of making and seeing and a new way of living with art At Kettle s Yard in Cambridge he opened his home and his collection to all comers Art ca be found there wherever you look in a pebble feather or seedhead His approach has shown generations of visitors that learning to look can be a whole new way of life A beautiful original biography Freeman s writing has Ede s flair grace and insight Financial Times A cabinet of curiosities The story of a life and of a century London Review of Books