BELL, Clive. Since Cézanne.

BELL, Clive. Since Cézanne.BELL, Clive. Since Czanne. London: Chatto and Windus. 1922. 8vo. Publishers blue cloth with white title label to spine lettered in black, fore and bottom edge untrimmed; pp. [8], 229, [3], with eight black and white illustrated plates depicting artworks including a frontispiece; lacking the dust jacket, toning and rubbing to title label, a little pushing to crown and base of spine; toning to edges of textblock, toning to endpapers, small p to final

BELL, Clive. Since Cézanne. London: Chatto and Windus. 1922.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth with white title-label to spine lettered in black, fore and bottom edge untrimmed; pp. [8], 229, [3], with eight black and white illustrated plates depicting artworks including a frontispiece; lacking the dust-jacket, toning and rubbing to title label, a little pushing to crown and base of spine; toning to edges of textblock, toning to endpapers, small ‘p’ to final blank; near fine.

First edition, first impression of Clive Bell’s treatise on the Post-Impressionists.

Clive Bell was central to the artistic movement of the Bloomsbury Group. He met Leonard Woolf and others during his first term at Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1899. His love and interest in art grew during his years as a student, and he won the Earl of Derby scholarship which allowed him to travel to Paris in 1904. Although his scholarship of art grew, so did his love of cafés and the company of artists.

In 1914, he published Art for which he is best remembered. In this work he puts forward his theory of ‘Significant Form’, that the quality common to all works ‘that provoke our aesthetic emotions’ are the ‘relations and combinations of lines and colours’.

See, BELL, Art (1914).

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