Vanessa Bell and Charleston : Motherhood, Queerness and the Domestic Imagination

artistic vision unsettled the boundaries between mother and child. The book traces the emotional afterlife of this vision through four generations of women: from Bell's mother, Julia Stephen, to the photographic legacy of her great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, and onward to her daughter, the writer and artist Angelica Garnett. Through these intertwined lives, it explores how motherhood was inherited, contested and reimagined across time.Richly illustrated, it brings together paintings, photographs and objects of the home, from Bell's decorated rooms and family album to the camp Famous Women dinner service of 1932, to show how the domestic imagination, in its maternal, queer and collaborative forms, reverberates through the story of both Bloomsbury and British modernism more broadly. [Publisher's text]

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