Clive Bell, the Bloomsbury critic who championed significant form, gathers essays on the painting of his own time. After an opening sketch of the movement that grew from Cézanne, he writes on Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, Bonnard and others, on tradition and movements, on the place of art in criticism and on why the instinctive craft of earlier times cannot simply be revived.
Lively, opinionated essays from the heart of early modernism, for anyone curious how Post-Impressionism was argued for. Download the free EPUB.