Ways of Life
Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists
$46.63
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
18 October 2025
Summary
This is the first biography of the Kettle’s Yard artists, revealing the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and exploring a thrilling moment in the history of modernism.
“The beautiful, revelatory biography we have been waiting for. I loved it.” - Edmund de Waal
“This book is the legacy Jim Ede might have wished for.” - Observer
The lives of Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard artists represent a thrilling tipping point in twentieth-century mod…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529932317 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529932319 |
| Author: | Laura Freeman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 18 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
A captivating biography * House & Garden *If ever the spirit of a gallery is captured within hard covers, it is Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, in this beautiful, original biography of its founder… Freeman’s writing has Ede’s flair, grace and insight * Financial Times, Best Books of 2023 *If you know and love Kettle’s Yard, a place that redefined 20th-century British art and I would say also interiors, or at least ways of living (and seeing), this is the book that finally does it justice… [An] outstanding and enviably well-written biography. Strongly recommend. – India KnightAn impassioned biography * The Times, Top 50 Non-Fiction Books *An excellent biography of Jim Ede. Reading Laura Freeman’s luminous study of the curator and collector, I can’t help but picture the gallery and house he built - the haven of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge * Daily Telegraph *Beautifully written… A book I have always hoped someone would write. – Nigel SlaterFreeman has done a wonderful job here in conveying with absolute precision why Ede mattered and what made him different from his Bloomsbury contemporaries * Sunday Times *A thorough and entertaining biography… Excellently paced * The Times *Meticulously researched, sympathetically told, the book is infused with the spirit of Kettle’s Yard * i *Ways of Life is a portable Kettle’s Yard, an entrancing book of immense and curious beauty – Ruth Scurr, author of Fatal Purity
About The Author
Laura Freeman
Laura Freeman is chief art critic of The Times. She has written for the Spectator, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, Apollo and World of Interiors. Her first book The Reading Cure, a memoir about hunger and happiness, addiction, obsession and recovery, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018. She studied history of art at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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