{"product_id":"clive-bell-and-the-making-of-modernism-9781408894415","title":"Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane'' - \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Revelatory''\u003ci\u003e - GUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Restores Clive Bell vividly to life'' - Lucasta Miller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003eClive 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 \u003ci\u003eArt\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Hu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmusing, charming, stimulating, urbane\u003c\/b\u003e -- Laura Freeman * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e[A] \u003cb\u003emeticulously researched and well-informed\u003c\/b\u003e account ... \u003cb\u003eRevelatory\u003c\/b\u003e ... 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 *\u003cbr\u003eOffers a missing piece in the familiar Bloomsbury jigsaw ... Mark Hussey ...\u003cb\u003e moves around the complex history of the Bloomsbury Group with near-faultless command\u003c\/b\u003e. He is also a\u003cb\u003e suave and sophisticated\u003c\/b\u003e historian, able to link Bell’s life very effectively with the historical moment -- Frances Spalding * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis spirited, urbane figure emerges engagingly\u003c\/b\u003e from the shadow of his more famous contemporaries in this first \u003cb\u003edefinitive \u003c\/b\u003ebiography * Town \u0026amp; Country, Book of the Week *\u003cbr\u003eWith this \u003cb\u003eentertaining and nuanced \u003c\/b\u003ebiography,\u003cb\u003e Hussey has filled in a valuable piece of the Bloomsbury jigsaw,\u003c\/b\u003e providing rich new insight into a major player in the story of 20th-century art -- Francesca Wade * Apollo *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book of real substance written with style and panache, copious fresh information and many insights.\u003c\/b\u003e Throughout, one senses that a strong mind is in control of the material – the whole literary performance is \u003cb\u003epersuasive and confidence-inducing\u003c\/b\u003e -- Julian Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis sympathetic and painstakingly researched portrait restores Clive Bell vividly to life\u003c\/b\u003e, both as a man and as a cultural figure whose art criticism influenced a generation -- Lucasta Miller\u003cbr\u003eHussey gives us a ... \u003cb\u003enuanced, complex \u003c\/b\u003eportrait of Clive Bell, \u003cb\u003ecelebrating\u003c\/b\u003e his accomplishments without obscuring the less appealing aspects of his character ... \u003cb\u003ePerceptive\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003cb\u003e[A] remarkable book\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003cb\u003eThere could not be a more fitting tribute to Clive Bell and his life’s work\u003c\/b\u003e * Literature Cambridge *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408027197783,"sku":"9781408894415","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408894415.jpg?v=1730501316","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/clive-bell-and-the-making-of-modernism-9781408894415","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}