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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Roger Fry"”.
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Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic
This thesis argues that Roger Fry should, in part at least, be placed within a tradition of British, Protestant, art criticism. To this end I compare his work with that of the leading nineteenth-century British art critic John Ruskin. I discuss the problems both men had in engaging with a …
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Re-imaging the Spaces of Femininity: Vanessa Bell and the Domestic Interior
… as wife of Clive Bell, lover of Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, sister of Virginia Woolf and member of Bloomsbury. Instead, I will develop an analysis of Bell’s own artistic objectives during this period of her work. Bell’s rejection of Victorian standards, both aesthetically and socially, and her …
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Attitudes to drawing in Britain, 1918-1964
… as a concept. The first chapter explores how Roger Fry and D. S. MacColl’s 1918- 1919 debate in the Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs introduced a theoretical conflict between modernism and drawing. The second chapter examines how reading for design in paintings led to increased awareness …
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Invisible presences: Virginia Woolf and biography
… Biography,” her fictional biography Orlando, and Roger Fry, the only conventional biography she wrote. A central observation in this thesis is that Woolf and her father shared a moral imperative derived from their heritage. His assertion that theological language failed to account for the rational …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
… role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as <em>Art</em> (1914), have been branded by art historiography as the prime …