arthur clive heward bell

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Definition of arthur clive heward bell in English English dictionary

born Sept. 16, 1881, East Shefford, Berkshire, Eng. died Sept. 17, 1964, London British art critic. He studied at Cambridge University and in Paris. In 1907 he married Vanessa Stephen, sister of Virginia Woolf; with Virginia's husband, Leonard Woolf, and Roger Fry, they formed the core of the Bloomsbury group. Bell's most important aesthetic ideas were published in Art (1914) and Since Cézanne (1922), in which he promoted his theory of "significant form" (the quality that distinguishes works of art from all other objects). His assertion that art appreciation involves an emotional response to purely formal qualities, independent of subject matter, was influential for several decades

Hyphenation

Ar·thur Clive heward Bell

Turkish pronunciation

ärthır klayv hyuırd bel

Pronunciation

/ˈärᴛʜər ˈklīv ˈhyo͞oərd ˈbel/ /ˈɑːrθɜr ˈklaɪv ˈhjuːɜrd ˈbɛl/