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Nov 4, 2011 · Roger Fry : a biography. by. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Publication date. 1976. Topics. Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934. Publisher. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
- History, Structure, and Style
- Woolf’s Analysis of Fry
- Critical Reception
Although the reference is jesting, in a May 1927 letter Woolf alludes to writing Fry’s memoirs: Fry has become so popular with the Oxford set, she writes, “they’ll be making a Christ of you within a century” and so “It[’]s time I set about the Fry memoir which I have it in my mind (as you Quakers say) to do before I die.” Shortly after Fry’s death,...
If the reader can forgive Woolf’s elision of Fry’s personal faults, it is more difficult to forgive her elision of his paintings. Though he made his living and his reputation as a art lecturer and critic, Fry considered painting his primary vocation. Nonetheless, Fry’s paintings never achieved widespread influence and rarely moved beyond the stylis...
The initial reception of Roger Fry praised its accuracy as a portrait. The Times Literary Supplement observes that it is “less concerned with Fry the art critic and painter and more concerned with his life and character,” in which regard “The account of the tragedy of Fry’s life, the mental aberration of his wife, is all the more moving for its res...
Dec 6, 2017 · ROGER FRY: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. e-artnow, Dec 6, 2017 - Biography & Autobiography - 595 pages. Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a...
Feb 13, 2015 · Roger Fry: A Biography. Book Details. Author Bio for Woolf, Virginia. Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
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Roger Fry: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976 - Art - 303 pages. Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one...
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