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Pot boilers: ClassicsEdition
Pot boilers From Clive Bell
71 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 2010
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Clive Bell
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There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See also Clive Bell
Arthur Clive Howard Bell, British critic, proposed his aesthetic theory of significant form in Art in 1914.
The group of Bloomsbury associated Arthur Clive Heward Bell, an Englishman. He studied history at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge, which educated him. Bell, one most prominent man, lived. Back at least to Immanuel Kant, peopel can trace the general view that properties of an object make something or define experiences. Bell found nothing else relevant about an object in any way to assess a valuable work. A painting for example represents something completely irrelevant to evaluating it. Consequently, unnecessary knowledge of the historical context or the intention of the painter for the appreciation of visual, he thought. "From life," "we need bring" "nothing," "no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions," ""to appreciate a work," he wrote.
The understanding of the notion differs. For Immanuel Kant, it meant roughly the shape of an object with as not an element. For Bell in contrast, "the" "unreal" "distinction," "you" can "conceive of" "neither" "a colorless space" nor a "relation." Bell famously coined the term to describe the distinctive type of "combination of lines and colors" which makes an object work.
Bell also claimed that the key value lies in ability to produce a distinctive experience in the viewer. Bell called this experience "emotion." It arouses that experience, as he defined it. In response to a work, we perceive an expression and thus experience emotion, he also suggested. The experience in turn sees pure ordinary objects in the world not as a means to something else but as an end, he suggested.
Ultimately, the value lies only in a means to "good states of mind," Bell thought. With "no" "more excellent or more intense" "state of mind" "than" "contemplation," Bell thought of visual works among the most valuable things. George Edward Moore, the philosopher, heavily influenced Bell like many persons in the group of Bloomsbury in his account of value.
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See also Clive Bell
Arthur Clive Howard Bell, British critic, proposed his aesthetic theory of significant form in Art in 1914.
The group of Bloomsbury associated Arthur Clive Heward Bell, an Englishman. He studied history at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge, which educated him. Bell, one most prominent man, lived. Back at least to Immanuel Kant, peopel can trace the general view that properties of an object make something or define experiences. Bell found nothing else relevant about an object in any way to assess a valuable work. A painting for example represents something completely irrelevant to evaluating it. Consequently, unnecessary knowledge of the historical context or the intention of the painter for the appreciation of visual, he thought. "From life," "we need bring" "nothing," "no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions," ""to appreciate a work," he wrote.
The understanding of the notion differs. For Immanuel Kant, it meant roughly the shape of an object with as not an element. For Bell in contrast, "the" "unreal" "distinction," "you" can "conceive of" "neither" "a colorless space" nor a "relation." Bell famously coined the term to describe the distinctive type of "combination of lines and colors" which makes an object work.
Bell also claimed that the key value lies in ability to produce a distinctive experience in the viewer. Bell called this experience "emotion." It arouses that experience, as he defined it. In response to a work, we perceive an expression and thus experience emotion, he also suggested. The experience in turn sees pure ordinary objects in the world not as a means to something else but as an end, he suggested.
Ultimately, the value lies only in a means to "good states of mind," Bell thought. With "no" "more excellent or more intense" "state of mind" "than" "contemplation," Bell thought of visual works among the most valuable things. George Edward Moore, the philosopher, heavily influenced Bell like many persons in the group of Bloomsbury in his account of value.
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September 14, 2013
Composed of reviews and articles published early in Clive Bell's career as an art and book critic, this ebook was interesting to read. For one thing, reading it showed how strongly opinionated Bell was as a young man, with definite ideas about what is and is not "good art". He pontificates about his newly developing theories in no uncertain terms, and his viewpoint is quite black and white.
With the arrogance of a young man Bell pushes the reader to see art the way he sees it, and there is no room in his mind for disagreement. I'll read more of Bell's books to discover if he further solidified his theories or eventually moderated them. An early member of Old Bloomsbury, Bell was married to Virginia Woolf's elder sister, the artist Vanessa Bell. Although Vanessa left him for her fellow artist Duncan Grant, she and Clive Bell never divorced and remained friends throughout their lives.
With the arrogance of a young man Bell pushes the reader to see art the way he sees it, and there is no room in his mind for disagreement. I'll read more of Bell's books to discover if he further solidified his theories or eventually moderated them. An early member of Old Bloomsbury, Bell was married to Virginia Woolf's elder sister, the artist Vanessa Bell. Although Vanessa left him for her fellow artist Duncan Grant, she and Clive Bell never divorced and remained friends throughout their lives.
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