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Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists

By (author) Laura Freeman

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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 â€˜Beautifully writtenâ€¦ A book I have always hoped someone would writeâ€™ Nigel Slater Jim 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 Kettleâ€™s Yard in Cambridge, he opened his home and his collection to all comers. Art ca be found there wherever you look â€“ 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. â€˜A beautiful, original biographyâ€¦ Freemanâ€™s writing has Edeâ€™s flair, grace and insightâ€™ Financial Times â€˜A cabinet of curiositiesâ€¦ The story of a life and of a centuryâ€™ London Review of Books