TY - BOOK AU - Bell,Clive TI - Art SN - 8171677266 PY - 2002/// CY - New Delhi PB - Rupa & Co. KW - Bell, Clive, KW - Art KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Aesthetics N1 - Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1914; "In this little book I have tried to develop a complete theory of visual art."--Pref; Includes bibliographical references; What is art? The aesthetic hypothesis ; Aesthetics and Post-Impressionism ; The metaphysical hypothesis -- Art and life: Art and religion ; Art and history ; Art and ethics -- The Christian slope: The rise of Christian art ; Greatness and decline ; The classical Renaissance and its diseases ; Alid ex alio -- The movement: The debt to Cézanne ; Simplification and design ; The pathetic fallacy -- The future: Society and art ; Art and society ER -