A Roger Fry Reader - Softcover

Fry, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226266427 ISBN 13: 9780226266428

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Synopsis

In the first decades of the twentieth century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesthetic theory. A Roger Fry Reader, edited by Christopher Reed, brings together for the first time a comprehensive selection of Fry's essays. Most appear here for the first time since their original publication in scholarly journals and art magazines, while some have never been published before. Representing 40 years of engagement with the arts, the essays cover a broad spectrum of topics, from Fry's influential promotion of Post-Impressionism to art education, museums, architecture, decorative art, and the implications of literature and dance for the visual arts. Reed also provides valuable historical background and considers Fry's legacy for the present. A Roger Fry Reader affords an opportunity to examine both the foundations of modern art criticism from the point of view of one of its foremost practitioners and current debates about the nature ofart and aesthetic experience.

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About the Author

Roger Fry (1866-1934) was an English artist and art critic, who, at the invitation of J. Pierpont Morgan, was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1905 to 1910. His other books include Giovanni Bellini (1899), an edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses (1935), Henri Matisse (1930), Characteristics of French Art (1932), and Reflections on British Painting (1934).

Reviews

It is good to have this selection of the writings of English critic Fry (1866-1934), of which little remains in print today. Now not much remembered except for his championship of Cezanne and his ideas of "pure form," Fry was a broad and engaging writer whose chosen medium was the lecture or essay. In addition to his leading role as apostle of Post-Impressionism, he was at home writing on architecture, decorative arts, literature, dance, and art education. Thoughtfully selected and introduced by independent scholar Reed, this collection, which includes a few previously unpublished essays, is a pleasure to read for its fresh and direct approach to works of art and movements that have long since been canonized into oblivion. Highly recommended for general and special collections.?Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
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Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226266427
• ISBN 13: 9780226266428
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 447
• Editor: Reed Christopher