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Art (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By Clive Bell

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Feb 8, 2011
Page Count
276 pages
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BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411436015

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ebook (Digital original)

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In his seminal and controversial work in defense of abstract art, renowned critic Clive Bell argues that “aesthetic emotion” is a response to the “significant form” of a work of art, the forms and relations of art itself; any other meaning or association the piece of art holds is irrelevant.  


Clive Bell

About the Author

Clive Bell (1881–1964) was a British art critic and philosopher, and one of the most prominent art theorists of the time. Bell was a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group and the husband of painter Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf’s sister.

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