Roger Fry: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

Book Overview

Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015678520X
• ISBN13: 9780156785204
• Release Date: March 1976
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Roger Fry

This biography is written by one of the best writers of the 20th century and concerns one of the most influential art critics of visual art. Roger Fry loved traditional Italian art and was converted through a very gradual and natural process to become an advocate for modern art. Roger Fry came to see and apprecaite his contemporaries in visual art as making and having made important contributions. Time has proved Roger Fry correct and his critics wrong. Who among us doesn't not know that van Gogh, Gaugain and Cezanne are important artists? Virginia Woolf is a perceptive and excellent writer. This is her only bow to biography. It is a pleasure to read about a significant personality written by such a good writer.