In 1932 Duncan Grant was asked to design the set for a production of Swan Lake for the Camargo Society, a London group who created and produced ballet. Grant continued to design sets in the 1920s. In 1918 Grant again worked with Jacques Copeau on stage designs for the opera Pelléas et Mèlisande, with Vanessa Bell helping with fabrics and costumes. The play was directed by French theatre director Jacques Copeau for the Vieux Columbier theatre in Paris. It was edited by his brother Quentin, and included contributions by members of the Bloomsbury Group including Maynard Keynes and David Garnett.įrom 1914 right through to the 1930s, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell worked on a number of stage designs and costumes for theatrical productionsĭuncan Grant first created stage scenery and costumes for a production of the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night in 1914. Julian Bell, Essays, Poems and Letters was published in 1938.
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One book that was very much at the centre of the Bloomsbury circle was produced as a tribute to Vanessa’s son, Julian, who was killed in the Spanish civil war. The covers looked different to the covers of other books at that time and gave the books a recognisable modern house style. Other artists such as John Banting, William Nicholson and Graham Sutherland, were also invited to design book covers for the Hogarth Press. She also designed the company’s logo, a wolf’s head, which was a pun on the name of the founders – Virginia and Leonard Woolf.
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She created the covers for most of Virginia Woolf’s books, and the first eight covers for a series Living Poets which began in 1928. Vanessa Bell worked with her sister and brother-in-law designing book covers and illustrating the books. Translations of books by the psychologist Sigmund Freud were among its later publications. It also published translations of Russian novels and plays by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and others. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West as well as Virginia Woolf’s novels.
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It published books by writers such as Katherine Mansfield, T.S.
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The first publication Two Stories, was written by Leonard and Virginia Woolf and illustrated by artist Dora Carrington.īy 1921 the Hogarth Press had moved to a new location in Tavistock Square in Central London and had better mechanical printing equipment. It was set up in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf using a small hand press on the dining table of their home, Hogarth House in Richmond. Its aim was to publish novels, poetry and books on politics, economics and psychology that might not appeal to more commercial publishers. The Hogarth Press led to collaborations between writers and artists of the Bloomsbury Group.