Ways of Life

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.