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PRESS OPINIONS ON
"ART" BY CLIVE BELL
" A book of absorbing interest. No one who reads it will, I am
sure, find the brief and somewhat comprehensive title either
arrogant or misleading. It contains some of the profoundest,
truest and most courageous considerations stated with connected
and well-supported conviction. The book is not only racy and
readable, but rarest of all things on this subject it is comprehensible.
The value of the book as an illuminaut to thought
on painting is henceforth impossible to ignore." Mr. WALTER
SICKKRT in the New Age.
" Certainly one of the most brilliant, provocating, suggestive
things that have ever been written on the subject. What a
breath of fresh air this iconoclast brings in with him, what masses
of mouldy snobbism he sweeps into the dust-heap, how salutary
even for the idols themselves is such a thorough turning out !
It will be seen that this is a book that all who care for art must
read ; the surprising good fortune that has befallen them is
that it is so eminently readable." Mr. ROGER FRY in the
Nation.
" By reason of its originality of thought and virility of expression
Mr. Clive Bell's " Art " is entitled to rank as a remarkable
contribution to the literature of art. The contemporary movement
has found no abler defender and exponent." Glasgow
Herald.
" Lovers of art owe Mr. Clive Bell thanks for the most stimulat-
ing, not to say the most provoking, book on art that has recently
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