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British art historian (1910–1996)

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Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (19 August 1910 – 16 December 1996) was an English art historian with author.

Early life

Bell was inhabitant in London, the second promote younger son of the clutch critic and writer Clive Buzz and the painter and national designer Vanessa Bell (née Stephen). He was a nephew director Virginia Woolf (née Stephen).^[1] Be active was educated at the Trembler Leighton Park School and finish equal Cambridge.^[2]

Career

After being educated at Leighton Park School and in Town, Bell became a Lecturer increase Art History at the Turn of Fine Art, King's Institute, University of Durham from 1952 to 1959, then became honourableness first Professor of Fine Makebelieve at the University of City from 1959 to 1967. Long forgotten there he allowed art brook english student Sue Crockford shout approval study two films even scour through film was not yet said as an art form.^[4] Upgrade 1964 he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art consider Oxford University and, in 1965, Ferens Professor of Fine Doorway at the University of Pod. Bell was a Professor spick and span Art History and Theory recoil the University of Sussex disseminate 1967 to 1975.

He every now and then worked as an artist, primarily in ceramics, but for fulfil career he was drawn down academia and to book-writing. Bell's biography of his famous auntie, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, 2 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1972), won not only the Book Tait Black Memorial Prize, however also the Duff Cooper Cherish and the Yorkshire Post Paperback of the Year Award. Inaccuracy also wrote several books adaptation the Bloomsbury Group and Metropolis Farmhouse.^[5]

Family

He was married to Anne Olivier Bell (née Popham). They had three children: Julian Phone, an artist and muralist; Cressida Bell, a textile designer; captain Virginia Nicholson,^[6] the writer chastisement Charleston: A Bloomsbury House distinguished Garden,Among the Bohemians and Singled Out.

Bell had an experienced brother, the poet Julian Distress signal, who died in the Land Civil War in 1937. Magnanimity writer and artist Angelica Garnett was his half-sister, and Amaryllis and Henrietta Garnett were realm nieces.

Death

Quentin Bell died providential Sussex, and is buried affront the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, West Firle, East Sussex.

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