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Vision and Design

Roger Fry

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. . . exquisite aristocrat proof against the deeper passions, and gifted with a sensuality so refined and a wit so ready that gallantry would be a sufficient occupation for a lifetime. Whoever handling a Louis XV. tabatière reflected how few of the friends of its original owner ever washed, and how many of them were marked with smallpox? The fun of these historical evocations is precisely in what they leave out.{28}

And in order that this process of selection and elimination may take place, precise and detailed knowledge must have faded from the collective memory, and the blurred but exquisite outlines of a generalisation must have been established.

We have just got to this point with the Victorian epoch. It has just got its vague and generalised Stimmung. We think as we look at Leech’s drawings, or sit in a bead-work chair, of a life which was the perfect flower of bourgeoisie. The aristocracy with their odd irregular ways, the Meredith heroine. . . Read More

Community Reviews

An essayist overview of art and art developments, but by being brief (201 pages) and narrow in scope (predominantly Europe) it makes for a read that adds little to the already crowded literary works on art.

Full of value statements and generalisations, the work additionally provides a poor response t


Roger Fry (1866-1934) - English painter, art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group and one of the most influential art critics in the early 20th century, a key thinker who emphasized the formal properties of a work of art.

Vision and Design contains over two dozen Roger Fry essays on many topics

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