{"product_id":"9781529932317","title":"Ways of Life : Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman","description":"This 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.   At 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.   `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\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55897822462325,"sku":"9781529932317","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529932317.jpg?v=1757003998","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529932317","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}