As well as being one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Virginia Woolf was also a prolific essayist. In Walter Sickert: A Conversation (first published in 1934), Woolf argues for a close connection between the visual arts and literature and for Sickert's pre-eminence among living painters. The essay takes us behind the scenes at a dinner party among liiterary friends who have recently attended a Sickert exhibition. The language employed is vivid and quite unlike conventional art criticism. One, on entering ...
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As well as being one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Virginia Woolf was also a prolific essayist. In Walter Sickert: A Conversation (first published in 1934), Woolf argues for a close connection between the visual arts and literature and for Sickert's pre-eminence among living painters. The essay takes us behind the scenes at a dinner party among liiterary friends who have recently attended a Sickert exhibition. The language employed is vivid and quite unlike conventional art criticism. One, on entering the show, became "all eye. I flew from colour to colour, from red to blue, from yellow to green. Colours went spirally through my body lighting a flare as if a rocket fell through the night..." Another argues that Sickert's skills as a portraitist make him "a great biographer...When he paints a portrait I read a life" Another argues that "He is more of a novelist than a biographer...He likes to set his characters in motion, to see them in action". On one thing they all agree: Sickert "is probably the best painter now living in England". Making this unique and little known book available again for the first time since its original publication, this new edition features the original cover artwork, a charming pen-and-ink drawing by Virginia Woolf's sister, the artist Vanessa Bell.
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Add this copy of Walter Sickert: a Conversation to cart. $64.72, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by The Bloomsbury Workshop.
Add this copy of Walter Sickert; a Conversation to cart. $90.00, very good condition, Sold by nicola wagner, ships from aptos, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1934 by Hogarth Press.
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First Edition. Wraps. small 8vo. pp 28. Black and white pen drawing illustration to cover by Vanessa Bell. Loosely inserted Hogarth Press flyer for the first one shilling and sixpence series, with such authors; E.M. Foster., John Betjeman, Stephen Spender etc. Slightly browned cover otherwise VG+
Add this copy of Walter Sickert: a Conversation to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1934 by Hogarth.
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28 pages. Slim 12mo, pictorial wrappers (illustrated by Vanessa Bell), sewn. London: Hogarth Press, 1934. First Edition. Very good copy with light tanning at the edges, small neat gift inscription on the half title.
Add this copy of Walter Sickert: a Conversation to cart. $150.00, like new condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1934 by Hogarth.
Add this copy of Walter Sickert: a Conversation to cart. $275.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1934 by Hogarth Press.
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Fine. First edition. Wrappers pictorially illustrated by Vanessa Bell. Two very small, identical bookstore labels from an Australian bookstore at bottom of front wrap, else an unusually fresh and very near fine copy.
