Bloomsbury és az alkotó nők: Virginia Woolf és Vanessa Bell
Bloomsbury and Creative Women: Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Summary/Abstract: Situating the work of the „Stephen sisters”, that is Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell into two definitive spaces: the late-Victorian Kensington and early-twentieth century Bloomsbury, the article explores the question of how the standard of norms prevalent in the parents’ house had an ambivalent impact on them, what the move to Bloomsbury meant both from a personal and a creative perspective, what kind of impulses they gained from the newly formed Bloomsbury Group, and how they coped with the issue of becoming women artists. The analysis considers the multiplicity and layeredness of both Virginia Woolf ’s and Vanessa Bell’s creative work, and points out how – from the aspect of a cultural history that takes account also of the materiality of cultural products – the two sisters’ creative energies could merge and unite in creating valuable art objects that indicate their individual and joint significance in our cultural history.

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