Clive Bell: 2 books

Arthur Clive Heward Bell (16 September 1881 – 18 September 1964), generally known as Clive Bell, was an eng Art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. Bell was at one point an adherent of absolute pacifism, and during the First World War was a conscientious objector, allowed...

In his seminal and controversial work in defense of abstract art, renowned critic Clive Bell argues that “aesthetic emotion” is a response to the “significant form” of a work of art, the forms and relations of art itself; any other meaning or association the piece of art holds is irrelevant.