A landmark biography that brings art critic Clive Bell, member of the Bloomsbury Group, back into prominence
Mark Hussey is Distinguished Professor of English at Pace University in New York City. Born in London, after completing a PhD at Nottingham, he moved to the US in 1982 and worked at the Association of American Publishers and the Sander Gallery in Soho. Mark is best known for his decades of work on the Bloomsbury Group and Virginia Woolf: he is the General Editor for Harcourt’s annotated editions of her works and editorial board member of the Cambridge Edition of Woolf.
A book of real substance written with style and panache, copious
fresh information and many insights. Throughout, one senses that a
strong mind is in control of the material – the whole literary
performance is persuasive and confidence-inducing
*Julian Bell*
This sympathetic and painstakingly researched portrait restores
Clive Bell vividly to life, both as a man and as a cultural figure
whose art criticism influenced a generation
*Lucasta Miller*
Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane
*The Times*
Offers a missing piece in the familiar Bloomsbury jigsaw ... Mark
Hussey ... moves around the complex history of the Bloomsbury Group
with near-faultless command. He is also a suave and sophisticated
historian, able to link Bell’s life very effectively with the
historical moment
*Literary Review*
[A] meticulously researched and well-informed account ...
Revelatory ... Hussey's patient recuperative work is important in
reminding us that the significant players in last century's art
history often refuse to fit our sentimental requirements
*Guardian*
This spirited, urbane figure emerges engagingly from the shadow of
his more famous contemporaries in this first definitive
biography
*Town & Country, Book of the Week*
With this entertaining and nuanced biography, Hussey has filled in
a valuable piece of the Bloomsbury jigsaw, providing rich new
insight into a major player in the story of 20th-century art
*Apollo*
Hussey gives us a ... nuanced, complex portrait of Clive Bell,
celebrating his accomplishments without obscuring the less
appealing aspects of his character ... Perceptive ... [A]
remarkable book ... There could not be a more fitting tribute to
Clive Bell and his life’s work
*Literature Cambridge*
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