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Arthur Clive Heward Bell (16 September 1881 – 17 September 1964) was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. He developed the art theory known as significant form. Biography Early life and education Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire, in 1881, the third of four children of William Heward Bell (1849–1927) and Hannah Taylor Cory (1850–1942). He had an elder brother (Cory), an elder sister (Lorna, Mrs Acton), and a younger sister (Dorothy, Mrs Hony). His father was a civil engineer who built his fortune in the family coal mines at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales – "a family which drew its wealth from Welsh mines and expended it on the destruction of wild animals." They lived at Cleeve House, Seend, near Devizes, Wiltshire, where Squire Bell's many hunting trophies were displayed.Bell was educated at Marlborough College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying history. In 1902 he gained an Earl of Derby scholarship to study in Paris, where his interest in art began. Marriage and other liaisons On returning to London early in 1907, he met and married Vanessa Stephen, the artist sister of Virginia Woolf. They had two sons, Julian (1908–1937) and Quentin (1910–1996), who both became writers. Julian joined the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War as an ambulance driver and was killed by an enemy shell, aged 29.By World War I their marriage was over. Vanessa had begun a lifelong relationship with Duncan Grant, and Clive had a number of liaisons with other women including Mary Hutchinson. However, Clive and Vanessa never officially separated or divorced. Not only did they visit each other regularly, they also sometimes spent holidays together and paid "family" visits to Clive's parents. Clive lived in London but often spent long periods at Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex, where Vanessa lived with Duncan and her three children by Clive and Duncan. He supported her wish to have a child by Duncan and allowed his wife's only daughter, Angelica, to bear his surname. Vanessa's daughter by Duncan, Angelica Garnett (1918–2012, née Bell), was raised as Clive's daughter until she married. She was informed by her mother, just prior to her marriage and shortly after her brother Julian's death, that Duncan Grant was her biological father. This deception forms the central message of her memoir, Deceived with Kindness (1984). According to historian Stanley Rosenbaum, "Bell may, indeed, be the least liked member of Bloomsbury.... Bell has been found wanting by biographers and critics of the Group – as a husband, a father, and especially a brother-in-law. It is undeniable that he was a wealthy snob, hedonist, and womaniser, a racist and an anti-Semite (but not a homophobe), who changed from a liberal socialist and pacifist into a reactionary appeaser. Bell's reputation has led to his being underestimated in the history of Bloomsbury...." Significant form Soon after Bell met Roger Fry, he developed his art theory significant form. The two shared a passion for contemporary French art. Bell's book Art (1914) was the first publication of his theory, which he describes as "lines and colours combined in a particular way, certain forms, and relations of forms, that stir our aesthetic emotions." This form can be seen in art created by many members of the Bloomsbury Group, an example being Interior at Gordon Square by Duncan Grant. Political views Bell was at one point an adherent of absolute pacifism, and during the First World War was a conscientious objector, allowed to perform Work of National Importance by assisting on the farm of Philip Morrell MP, at Garsington Manor. In his 1938 pamphlet War Mongers, he opposed any attempt by Britain to use military force, arguing "the worst tyranny is better than the best war." Ideas that Bell eventually supported the war are unproven, as Mark Hussey points out in his 2021 biography of Bell (p. 350 n1). Works See also List of Bloomsbury Group peopleReferences Sources Bell, Clive (2015) [1914]. Art. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781514244715. Text of Art Gutenberg Project Bywater, William G (1975). Clive Bell's Eye. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814315347.Further reading Hussey, Mark, Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography (2021). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1408894446External links Works by Clive Bell at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Clive Bell at Internet Archive "CLIVE BELL DEAD; ART CRITIC WAS 83; British Writer Championed Cezanne During 1920's" The New York Times, 20 September 1964. . Discover the Clive Bell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Clive Bell books.
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The Thief
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The Gangster
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Clive Cussler The Heist
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Clive Cussler The Sea Wolves
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Roger Fry, Clive Bell and American Modernism
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Unsinkable
Dan JamesA DOOMED VOYAGEApril 14th 1912. The maiden voyage of the world's most luxurious passenger liner, Titanic. A DARK PASTEach passenger has their own reason to make the crossing, but f...
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Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism
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The Complete Poems
John Milton & John LeonardJohn Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His early poems include the devotional 'On the Mornin...
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The Cutthroat
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The Chase
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Spanish Short Stories
Gudie LawaetzThis second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanishspeaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, N...
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The Gray Ghost
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The Assassin
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The Saboteurs
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The Titanic Secret
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Pirate
Ted BellIn Ted Bell's scorching followup to his New York Times bestseller Assassin, intrepid intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and Franc...
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John Keats
John Keats & John BarnardKeats is one of the major figures in the second generation of Romantic Poets and was considered by Tennyson to be the greatest poet of the nineteenth century. The preoccupying the...
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Assassin
Ted BellIn this explosive, jawtightening thriller, and second in the bestselling Alex Hawke series, fearless intelligence operative Lord Alexander Hawke matches wits with a cunning and blo...
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The Spy
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The Wrecker
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The Striker
Clive Cussler & Justin ScottTurnofthecentury detective Isaac Bell goes undercover as a coal miner for his first solo mission in this novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series. It is 1902,...
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The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser, C O'Donnell & Thomas RocheThe Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, S...
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Poems of Robert Burns Selected by Ian Rankin
Robert Burns & Ian RankinThe farmer’s boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a greater and more varied artist than those ...
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Selected Letters of Clive Bell
Mark HusseyA selection of letters by the pacifist and noted art critic Clive Bell, expertly annotated by his biographer
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The Race
Clive CusslerDetective Isaac Bell returns, in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and news...
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Hawke
Ted BellThis “swashbuckling, spine tingling, bloody good masterpiece of an adventure novel” (James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about a man who follows in the footsteps...