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Sam Rose: Clive Bell’s Feeling for Art, 4 May 2023
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism
by Mark Hussey.
Bloomsbury, 578 pp., £14.99, February 2022,978 1 4088 9441 5 Show More
by Mark Hussey.
Bloomsbury, 578 pp., £14.99, February 2022,
“... many of his Cambridge contemporaries were homosexual, and his sister-in-law Virginia’s husband, Leonard Woolf, was Jewish).Bell’s sense of his own personal freedom shaped his writing career. In 1915 he wrote Peace at Once, a pamphlet that pointed out the absurdity of a ‘small ruling caste’ sending the rest of the population off to die in the name ... ”