Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography - Couverture souple

Hussey, Professor Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408894416 ISBN 13 : 9781408894415

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022

'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES

'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN

'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller
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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 him 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.

'A book of real substance written with style and panache, copious fresh information and many insights' - Julian Bell

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Hussey is Professor of English at Pace University, USA. He is editor of the Cambridge edition of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (2011) and author of Virginia Woolf A to Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings (1996).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408894416
• ISBN 13: 9781408894415
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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