Books
by Laura Freeman
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Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists |
Jim Ede led a singular life as a collector of objects and an enthusiast for modern art. He had sufficient self-realisation to know that would not succeed as an artist himself. Instead, as Laura Freeman’s account reveals, his innate curiosity and early good fortune to ‘inherit’ Henri Gaudier-Brezeska’s life’s work, set him on a curatorial path which culminated in the eclectic collection in Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge which he enthusiastically shared with generations of undergraduates*.
*Editor’s note: including the reviewer when he was up at St Johns in the late 1960’s
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 119 Winter 2026) |
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