{"product_id":"9781529932317","title":"Ways of Life : Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Freeman, Laura \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/09\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 496 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529932317,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art ‘Beautifully written… A book I have always hoped someone would write’ NIGEL SLATER'[An] outstanding and enviably well-written biography. Strongly recommend' INDIA KNIGHT'The beautiful, revelatory biography we have been waiting for. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAALJim 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, he opened his home and his collection to all comers. Art ca be found there wherever you look – 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A beautiful, original biography… Freeman’s writing has Ede’s flair, grace and insight’ FINANCIAL TIMES'An extraordinary tale' LITERARY REVIEW‘A cabinet of curiosities… The story of a life and of a century’ LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56351256576373,"sku":"9781529932317","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529932317.jpg?v=1763300115","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529932317","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}