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Apostle of modernism: Clive Bell’s reputation repaired

24 April 2021

9:00 AM

24 April 2021

9:00 AM

Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism Mark Hussey

Bloomsbury, pp.608, 30

Clive Bell is the perennial supporting character in the biographies of the Bloomsbury group. The husband of Vanessa Bell, brother-in-law of Virginia Woolf and friend of Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, he is often depicted as a witness to historical events rather than a participant in them, a sort of modernist Forrest Gump.

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