Hussey, Mark, 1956-, Clive Bell and the making of modernism , 2021
- Title(s):
- Clive Bell and the making of modernism : a biography / Mark Hussey.
- Published/Created:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 578 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN7483.B37 H87 2021 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15976375
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-549) and index.
"Clive Bell is perhaps better known today for being a Bloomsbury socialite and the husband of artist Vanessa Bell, sister to Virginia Woolf. Yet Bell was a highly important figure in his own right: an internationally renowned art critic who defended daring new forms of expression at a time when Britain was closed off to all things foreign. His groundbreaking book Art brazenly subverted the narratives of art history and cemented his status as the great interpreter of modern art. Bell was also an ardent pacifist and a touchstone for the Wildean values of individual freedoms, and his is a story that leads us into an extraordinary world of intertwined lives, loves and sexualities. For decades Bell has been an obscure figure, refracted through the wealth of writing on Bloomsbury, but here Mark Hussey brings Bell to the fore, drawing on personal letters, archives and Bell's own extensive writing. Complete with a cast of famous characters, including Lytton Strachey, T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau, Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism is a fascinating portrait of a man who became one of the pioneering voices in art of his era. Reclaiming Bell's stature among the makers of modernism, Hussey has given us a biography to muse and marvel over - a snapshot of a time and of a man who revelled in and encouraged the shock of the new"--Publisher's description. - Subject Terms:
- Art critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.Art critics.Bell, Clive, 1881-1964.Bell, Clive, 1881-1964.Great Britain.Modernism (Art)Modernism (Art) -- Great Britain.
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- Biographies.
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- Becoming Clive (1880-1907)
- Art and letters (1907-1914)
- Pacificists and poets (1914-1918)
- A highly civilized loafer (1919-1929)
- Nothing worse than war (1930-1939)
- Civilisation's flame (1939-1949)
- Old friends (1950-1964).