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03085aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 DBDAFAA4323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 200810s2021 enka b 001 0beng d 020 $a 9781408894446 020 $a 1408894440 035 $a (OCoLC)1182851648 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a N7483.B37 $b H87 2021 082 04 $a 709.2 $2 23 100 1 $a Hussey, Mark, $d 1956- $e author. 245 10 $a Clive Bell and the making of modernism : $b a biography / $c Mark Hussey. 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 578 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Becoming Clive (1880-1907) -- Art and letters (1907-1914) -- Pacificists and poets (1914-1918) -- A highly civilized loafer (1919-1929) -- Nothing worse than war (1930-1939) -- Civilisation's flame (1939-1949) -- Old friends (1950-1964). 520 $a "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"--Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Bell, Clive, $d 1881-1964. 600 17 $a Bell, Clive, $d 1881-1964. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034589 650 0 $a Art critics $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Modernism (Art) $z Great Britain. 650 7 $a Art critics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815508 650 7 $a Modernism (Art) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024442 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781408894439 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021456.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBDAFAA4323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search