{"product_id":"roger-fry-clive-bell-and-j-b-bullen-9781788749275","title":"Roger Fry, Clive Bell and American Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde painting, they explained its disconcerting imagery by way of a late nineteenth-century metaphysical tradition which had long intrigued musicians and Symbolist writers on the European continent. The Post-Impressionist aesthetic they devised advocated a direct response to the formal ingenuity of the work of art without recourse to prior knowledge and emphasized the significance of visionary genius, albeit to the detriment of narrative acuity and technical accomplishment, values hitherto upheld by the Edwardian art establishment. The provocation was calculated, the author suggests, and its domestic ramifications were predictable: the reaction of an Anglo-conformist public in New York, on the other hand, was anything but. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecreating an Anglo-American dialogue inspired by Fry and Bell, and framed within a period encompassing Fry's \u003cem\u003eManet and the Post-Impressionists\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition in 1910 and Alfred Barr Jr's \u003cem\u003eCubism and Abstract Art\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition in 1936, the author demonstrates how key components of Bloomsbury's aesthetic bypassed a pre-existent modernist practice in New York and were instead taken up by an urban intelligentsia which adapted them to the requirements of an increasingly professionalized institutional practice during the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. B. Bullen,David Maddock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788749278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788749275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"J. B. Bullen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48113727766783,"sku":"9781788749275","price":86.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b36e7ca4-7bf6-4949-8c21-1e8d68ac3996.jpg?v=1769616923","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roger-fry-clive-bell-and-j-b-bullen-9781788749275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}