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Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography by Professor Mark Hussey (Hardcover, 2021)
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Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane -- Laura Freeman The Times [A] meticulously researched and well-informed account ... Revelatory ... Hussey's patient recuperative work is important in reminding us that the significant players in last century's art history often refuse to fit our sentimental requirements -- Kathryn Hughes Guardian Offers a missing piece in the familiar Bloomsbury jigsaw ... Mark Hussey ... moves around the complex history of the Bloomsbury Group with near-faultless command.
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'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES 'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN 'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller 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. 'A book of real substance written with style and panache, copious fresh information and many insights.' - Julian BellProduct Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408894446
eBay Product ID (ePID)12046590091
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Book TitleClive Bell and the Making of Modernism: a Biography
AuthorProfessor Mark Hussey
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicArchaeology
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages592 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width153mm
Item Weight1008g
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Title_AuthorProfessor Mark Hussey
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 07 Apr, 2021
At last!
Great book, an eagerly and long-awaited biography of Clive Bell. The last of the Bloomsberries to have a book written about them -- with the exception of Saxon Sydney-Turner (about whom there prob isn't enough to say).Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
