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Title: Art
Author: Clive Bell
Release Date: October 21, 2005 [eBook #16917]
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ART
by
CLIVE BELL
1913
[Illustration: WEI FIGURE, FIFTH CENTURY _In M. Vignier's Collection_]
New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers
Printed in Great Britain
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PREFACE
In this little book I have tried to develop a complete theory of visual art. I have put forward an hypothesis by reference to which the respectability, though not the validity, of all aesthetic judgments can be tested, in the light of which the history of art from palaeolithic days to the present becomes intelligible, by adopting which we give intellectual backing to an almost universal and immemorial conviction. Eve