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Roger Fry, Clive Bell and American Modernism

Roger Fry, Clive Bell and American Modernism

Maddock, David
Bullen, J. B.

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Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t, Book 44

Art HistoryGeneral European HistoryBritish History

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ISBN10: 1788749278
ISBN13: 9781788749275
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: May 29 2020
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.91
Language: English

When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde painting, they explained its disconcerting imagery by way of a late nineteenth-century metaphysical tradition which had long intrigued musicians and Symbolist writers on the European continent. The Post-Impressionist aesthetic they devised advocated a direct response to the formal ingenuity of the work of art without recourse to prior knowledge and emphasized the significance of visionary genius, albeit to the detriment of narrative acuity and technical accomplishment, values hitherto upheld by the Edwardian art establishment. The provocation was calculated, the author suggests, and its domestic ramifications were predictable: the reaction of an Anglo-conformist public in New York, on the other hand, was anything but.

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