Art
by Clive Bell
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About This Book
In this little book I have tried to develop a complete theory of visual art. I have put forward an hypothesis by reference to which the respectability- though not the validity- of all aesthetic judgments can be tested- in the light of which the history of art from palaeolithic days to the present becomes intelligible; by adopting which we give intellectual backing to an almost universal and immemorial conviction.' (From original author Preface)
Chapters (52)
- ART
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- I
- THE AESTHETIC HYPOTHESIS
- II
- AESTHETICS AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM
- III
- THE METAPHYSICAL HYPOTHESIS
- FOOTNOTES:
- II
- ART AND LIFE
- I. Art and Religion II. Art and History III. Art and Ethics
- I
- ART AND RELIGION
- II
- ART AND HISTORY
- III
- ART AND ETHICS
- FOOTNOTES:
- III
- THE CHRISTIAN SLOPE
- I. The Rise of Christian Art II. Greatness and Decline III. The Classical Renaissance and its Diseases IV. Alid ex Alio
- I
- THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN ART
- II
- GREATNESS AND DECLINE
- III
- THE CLASSICAL RENAISSANCE AND ITS DISEASES
- IV
- ALID EX ALIO
- FOOTNOTES:
- IV
- THE MOVEMENT
- I. The Debt to Cézanne II. Simplification and Design III. The Pathetic Fallacy
- I
- THE DEBT TO CÉZANNE
- II
- SIMPLIFICATION AND DESIGN
- III
- THE PATHETIC FALLACY
- FOOTNOTES:
- V
- THE FUTURE
- I. Society and Art II. Art and Society
- I
- SOCIETY AND ART
- II
- ART AND SOCIETY
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE END
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