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PRESS OPINIONS ON "ART"
" Mr. Bell says many wise and witty things.
Few people will
agree with them all, many will get angry with the remorselessness
of his logic, but nobody can read the book through carefully
without clearing up their own minds on the subject and incidentally
acquiring a sounder understanding of what art is and
means." Sunday Times.
"
He utters paradoxes as if they were the tritest things in the
world ;
all epigram and impudence he trails his coat assiduously,
and, while his brilliance is vastly entertaining, his method of
bouncing us into liking what he likes, and hating what he hates,
is likely to infuriate quite as many readers as it takes by storm."
Manchester Guardian.
" The rather sterile literature of art criticism has been seriously
enriched by a brilliant if wilful manifesto. The refreshing
absence of obscurity common to art criticism will be particularly
welcome. For genuine students the book possesses significant
form, and will be indispensable." Westminster Gazette.
"
This is the best and most entertaining book about art that
we have ever read." Standard
"
This book is of first-rate importance. But nobody need be
frightened of it on that account. Unlike most important works
on the theory of art, it is thoroughly entertaining from beginning
to end. Its main thesis is a generalization which, if true, is
applicable to all schools and all epochs. The book is stimulating
and suggestive." Cambridge Review.
" Mr. Bell's book has been generally recognized as the most
interesting and stimulating appreciation that has yet appeared
in this country of the movement which we call post-impressionism.
The book is, however, much wider in its scope. A book upon
aesthetics at once serious (on the whole), sane, and extremely
entertaining." Welsh Outlook.
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