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Dover Publications · 1914

The book that coined the concept of ‘Significant Form’ in modern art.

Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 1914 (repr.)
Language: English
Print length: 176*

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Description

In Art (1914) Clive Bell advances his formalist theory: the value of an artwork lies in its ‘significant form’ – the relations of lines, colors and shapes that provoke ‘aesthetic emotion’ – not in its subject or imitation. A key reference for understanding abstract and modernist art.